The Assembly podcast is back for the new year with a new season and a new set of co-hosts, Zac Settle and Amaryah Shaye Armstrong. On part one of this…
12 Now when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew to Galilee. 13 He left Nazareth and made his home in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory…
23Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; 3therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do…
…‘paradigmatic form’ of the ‘governmental machine’. This initial formulation gave me some hope that Agamben’s notorious searches for origins would at least be qualified. Privileged, if not a paradigmatic laboratory,…
…who ate and drank with him after he rose from the dead. 42 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he is the one ordained…
13The Passover of the Jews was near, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.14In the temple he found people selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and the money changers seated at their…
…Son of Man had risen from the dead. Mark 9:2-9 The unsettling splendour of the transfiguration, the needs of the world and the disciples’ despair, are all captured by Mark…
…has no works, is dead, being by itself.” James writes this after he has excoriated classism within the church, where the rich were being given preferred seating and treatment and…
…at once fiercely critical, ironic, contemptuous, erudite, and enlightening as he engages thinkers both living and dead on the relationship between blood and its many metaphoric and literal representations. This…
…With hands clasped about the pulpit, I looked out onto empty pews, imagining the countless people who had filled those seats over the decades. I shuddered ever so slightly, remembering…
…than ten sons?’ 9 After they had eaten and drunk at Shiloh, Hannah rose and presented herself before the Lord. Now Eli the priest was sitting on the seat beside…
…easy. It is deadly, and scary. Yet, Thangalaan says, “rather than die under those who discriminate against us based on our birth, it is better to die trying to change…