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Story Saturday: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell”
Huck Finn’s letter to Jim’s new owner: I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but...
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… it’s what you see.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. - Henry David Thoreau Yes, but can’t you see what your looking at first? Indeed, we cannot even begin to consider the world in which we live...
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Desired Outcomes: The Order of Creation
Inspired by comments on Rachel Held Evans’ blog. An argument I saw twice for the man over woman hierarchy (complimentarianism) was that Adam was created first and Eve second. We’ll leave it here,...
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Story Saturday: A Lending Parable
Know where this one’s from? There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions. And he called him and said to him, ‘What is this that I...
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On Lording
Over at Storied Theology there’s some nervousness about anti-Roman studies within New Testament. Did Jesus resist Rome? Was Jesus anti-Roman? Would Jesus have taken up arms against Rome if he had...
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A Lectionary Experience: Mark 5:21-43
First, on my old blog, I’ve dealt with this passage before: The writer of Mark favors what are called sandwich stories, A-B-A’ constructions, where B as the central point in the story, says something...
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Fear the Lord
…that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son’s son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be...
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Couriers by Kafka
“They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world,...
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Capitalist Ideology and the Kingdom
The problem with a capitalist ideology is not that it’s capitalist. Rather, it’s that it’s ideology. Capitalism isn’t perfect, but no system developed is, and we can argue about which one is better....
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Die Mitte der Zeit
Whereas in Mark the narrative itself provides a broad unfolding of the kerygma, Luke defines the narrative as the historical foundation, which is added as a secondary factor to the kerygma, a...
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