Lenten Reflections in 2024
hosted by the Anglican Parish of Christ Church Calgary at Elbow Park, this podcast explores Lent through the texts of the Lectionary. . Rev. Brandon Witwer and Rev. Adam Bedford bid listeners come, rest, and feast in the Christian scriptural text and accompanied by a myriad of contemporary and historical conversation partners. Annotated, edited, and uploaded by Gary Mak, Lay Pastor for Families.
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Lenten Reflections in 2024
Advent I - Habbakuk's Protest of and Hope in God
Chelsea Mak is a Doctoral Candidate in the study of the Hebrew Bible, having completed her Master's degree focused on the prophets with a thesis on the vision of ecology in Habbakuk. Chelsea Mak breaks down the chapters of Habbakuk for our audience, noting the prophet's indictment against God. God had promised to rescue his people from oppression under Assyria but instead brought further violence through Babylon, his chosen "savior." At the end of the protest, Habbakuk somehow continues to stand for hope in God's faithfulness, as in the most-known verse, "but the righteous will live by their faithfulness."
Similarly for us, Advent makes this movement from absence to presence, from our holding God accountable to hoping in the Christ. Thus Mak's refrain repeats the RCV's: "The Christ came, the Christ comes, and the Christ will come again."