…find in this week’s lection from Hosea 11. Along with Jonah and Nahum, Hosea is one of a very few prophetic texts written by someone from the northern kingdom in…
…creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, singing, “To the one seated on the throne and to…
…the Five Scrolls for Today (Fortress Press, 2018). In October 2017, author Sasha Polakow-Suransky published an opinion piece in the online New York Times entitled “White Nationalism Is Destroying the…
…we may obey it?” 13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may…
…and all the heavenly beings shouted for joy? 8 Or who shut in the sea with doors when it burst out from the womb?– 9 when I made the clouds…
…himself alone. 9As they were coming down the mountain, Jesus ordered them, “Tell no one about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead.”…
…reverses the role played by “messenger” in the cultural milieu. Messages in the Persian empire were written on scrolls, signed by a royal authority, and hand delivered or read by…
In the first week of this Advent season, on December 2nd, 2019, Johann Baptist Metz became one of “the dead” of whom he so lovingly and insistently spoke. Upon hearing…
…an official seal in the first century functioned in a similar way to an official seal today. A seal served as a mark of identification, either marking ownership or certifying…
…common sense. Mary would have expected that dead people stay dead. Or to put a finer point on it, people dead for three days certainly stay dead. Mary’s analysis that…
…among the dead? He is not here, but has risen’” (Luke 24: 1,4,5; NRSV). That the resurrection is a beleaguered doctrine in North America and in Europe is hardly a…
…so I had better make my visit brief if I was not to spend the night with the bones of the dead. I strode down the path, followed the left…