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Ruth and the Good Neighborhood: The Politics of Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17

…makes for a good American society is a much more divisive issue. It has been the source of rancorous disagreement throughout the election season. On this, and any political issue,…

Troubling the Calendar

…of vipers” and asks “who warned them of the wrath to come?” John appears intrigued that so many would elect to follow his prophetic calendar and during a challenging season…

An Election About Nothing

…in Montana) or simply nothing. Nothing, that is, other than gaining or maintaining the seat in question and the power in and behind it. In order to avoid any hasty…

Turkey Trouble in Florida

…plans to build the new reactors on reinforced platforms twenty-six feet above sea level. (The old reactors sit twenty feet above the sea.) In 2010, four of the region’s counties…

A Time To Be Counted Against Injustice

The book of Ecclesiastes says that there is a season and a time for everything under heaven. There is, for example, a time to be born, and to die; a…

The Timeless Power of Hope

…able to return home. I’d like to offer a vision of this hope in action, using a scene from the most recent season (season 3) of the show Derry Girls….

…on his way out of Israel, Elijah mimics Moses’ own actions at the Red/Reed Sea. Elijah’s point of departure from his earthly life is roughly the same as Moses’ point…

Prophets Among Us—1 Samuel 2:18-20, 26 and Luke 2:41-52

…“Child, why have you treated us like this? Look, your father and I have been searching for you in great anxiety.” 49He said to them, “Why were you searching for…

…to the late American philosopher Richard Rorty, while philosophy has anything to do with truth, it has nothing to do with politics motivated solely by search for improvements, as Protagoras…

Caught in the Undertow

…Nineveh and cry out against it, God says. And so Jonah goes down to Tarshish. Many know this familiar story. God finds Jonah at sea, stirs up a storm, and…

Church and State in Montenegro: between National(istic) and Imperial Policies

…does not mean, of course, that there have been no attempts of ecclesiastical seats to assume such power. Indeed, just as the seat of Rome infused the universalist aspirations to…

Sitting in Public

1 After this Jesus went to the other side of the Sea of Galilee, also called the Sea of Tiberias. 2 A large crowd kept following him because they saw…