Community Under a Fig Tree

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This resource relating to Luke 13:1-9 provides a poem by Ross Gay offering an image of community under a fig tree.
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*** Narrative Lectionary *** Lectionary Reading: Luke 13:1-9 CONTEMPORARY POEM: To the Fig Tree on 9th and Christian Ross Gay SNIPPET: the sound of sweeping and a woman yes with a broom beneath which you are now too the canopy of a fig its arms pulling the September sun to it and she has a hose too and so works hard rinsing and scrubbing the walk … [ READ THE FULL POEM ]
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Ross Gay
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Luke 13:1-9
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NL332 Lament over Jerusalem
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025