Are We the Baddies? - Proper 22A (October 4, 2026)

Send us Fan Mail On this Short Take episode of Comedians with Pastors Talking Bible, Jesus tells a parable about tenants who kill everyone the landowner sends, right down to his son. And the chief priests listening realize, one by one, that he's talking about them. Are we the baddies? It's one of the hardest texts in the lectionary to preach well, and one of the easiest to misuse. So we take it slowly: who the parable is actually aimed at, what kind of landlord keeps sending people to their d...