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A Widow’s Presence

seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.” 41He sat…

A Widow’s Presence—Mark 12:38-44

…best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”…

A little over a month after the shooting at Newtown Elementary School which left twenty young children and six staff members dead, President Obama today offered bold Presidential leadership for…

…automobiles without seat belts. The potential damage to the consumer in both cases outweighs the rights of companies to treat these safety elements as optional in their products. 5. Closely…

Authorizing and Authenticating Revival

…rhetoric of spiritual deadness or stagnancy to justify divine rupture into the world. Asbury president Timothy Tennent echoes this language in describing the events on campus: “There comes a point when the…

Russia, America, and the Rebirth of History (Carl Raschke)

…envisioned, is not a billowing sea of tranquility, but a roiling tempest of forces. Adrift on such a dangerous ocean — within what Nietzsche termed the “horizon of the infinite”…

Hollywood Violence and Christ’s Kenotic Counter-Example (Jacob Given)

…example, caused quite a stir.[1] A more recent example of war violence is Eastwood’s American Sniper. This film follows Chris Kyle, the United States’ deadliest sniper, through his tours of…

War, Peace, and the Wesleyan Tradition’s Charism: to be “perfect in love in this lifetime”

…unique and definitive expression of God’s economy, of how God redeems the world, and if he were not bodily raised from the dead, then pacifism makes no sense for me….

Crip Time, Sacred Time, and Holding History

What do crip time and sacred time have in common? And what can they reveal to one another? In 1910, two girls we will call by the pseudonyms Ethel and…

The Laborers are Many, the Jobs are Few

…who goes in search of day laborers for his vineyard. The landowner, like any good entrepreneur, gets an early start. He likely hopes to secure the best of the bunch…

“Get Up and Eat”: The Political Act of Feeding—1 Kings 19:1–15a

…and through the desert, is symbolic of the many persons who migrate through harsh deserts and other lands in search of a place of safety and wellbeing. Such pursuits do…

The Politics of Retelling

…address the issues of the rising cost of living by investing in ploughshares and pruning hooks of agriculture so that food is available to all.  Advent is a season of…