…created by it, and the dead beneath the sea. It can be imagined as looking into the ‘vast and inconsolable’ sea to make visible what was disappeared, and make futurities…
…about the vision until after the Son of Man has been raised from the dead” (Matthew 17:9b; cf. Mark 9:9), followed by a paragraph of further discussion and explanation. However,…
…age over and over again, in season and out of season, this apostolic message: “Behold, now is the acceptable time for a change of heart; behold! now is the day…
…tragedy, and a miscarrying of justice, compounding an already vast sea of grief. Last year in the wake of Trayvon’s death, peacebuilding scholar and practitioner David Anderson Hooker argued presciently:…
…their world, or rather (since getting hung up on questions of whether we can tell what the long dead really thought is a fool’s errand) how they described their world. The kind…
…sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded…I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed…I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony…
…the dead as well, allowing them to move into the underworld and be reincarnated as wild pigs who could then offer themselves up to nourish the living. The practice emerges…
…man punished by extreme suffering for his wickedness, and to the deadly wood of the cross, appropriates fitting altars for reprobate and wicked men, that they may worship what they…
…he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, 30 then I was beside…
…texts—likely possessing greater access to liquid than the average peasant. Thus, to these unimaginative interpreters, complaining about water and food—especially after experiencing a magnificent miracle of the Red Sea splitting—is…
…thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord. They shall wander from sea to sea, and from north to east; they shall run to and fro, seeking…
…These include David’s nephew, Joab, whose men had killed David’s other son, Absalom, as well as Shimei, the relative of the dead King Saul who had cursed David when he…