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Finding Hope in a New Planting

…in preparation for what became six essays on the theme, “Considering Climate Change in the Lenten Season.” That week, Ash Wednesday was observed and Lent began. We chose our topic…

Fishers for a New Kingdom—Mark 1:14-20 (Robert Williamson Jr.)

…and believe in the good news.’ 16As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake—for they were fishermen….

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…