Author: Suzanne Nicholson

Dr. Suzanne Nicholson holds a PhD from the University of Durham. She is Professor of Biblical Studies at Malone University.
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Suzanne Nicholson ~ Checking Your Blind Spots: Preaching in the Gaps

by Suzanne Nicholson

Preachers tend to have favorite passages and topics for preaching and teaching. If you don’t preach from the Revised Common Lectionary each week, it can be easy to fall into predictable patterns that limit your congregation’s exposure to the full range of God’s Word. We all have blind spots, and it’s worth asking where we might be missing the opportunity to address a pressing need.

Suzanne Nicholson ~ Which Story Will You Tell?

by Suzanne Nicholson

And the soldiers—the protectors of civil order— decide to bury the truth. They take their bribe and the promise of protection from Pilate’s wrath, and they toe the party line. They protect the power of a broken world.But the women—the ones with little influence, the ones who are least likely to be believed—they run from the empty tomb with great joy. It is only as they are obedient to the angel’s command that Jesus himself appears to them.