…have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets! 40 They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive…
…psalm easier to read after my service (for a brief season) as a hospital chaplaincy intern. People say all sorts of things from the midst of crisis—often things that probably…
…The Dutch were the quintessential merchants of the early modern era, hauling by sea all types of goods from one corner of the planet to the other, all the while…
…harvesting season for coffee beans. That year, despite the exorbitant increases in the cost of a cup of coffee at local coffee shops in wealthy countries, wholesale prices for coffee…
…ever get us away from it”[1] – Billy Sunday, professional baseball player turned revivalist. When the San Diego Padres open their season against the Dodgers on a Sunday evening next…
…text for the first Sunday of the Christmas season? The only way forward is through it. For me, this means an intentional engagement with its violent negative framing of “no…
…doubt: “Keep Christ in Christmas” “Jesus Is the Reason for the Season” and of course, the ever-popular War on Christmas, which, if we are to believe conservative talk show hosts,…
…the most common prophetic motifs in the Scripture is that of Israel’s infidelity towards Yahweh. For example, the entire book of Hosea makes use of the image of the prostitute,…
…from different vantage points. For Kline, Wynter wants us to escape our “autoreligious” tendency in search of “the new scientific objectivity and poetics of the trans-genre common outside.” For Bakker,…
…The legacy of the region in terms of its connection with the global political structures over the sea network in the early colonial period was well studied. Many of such…
…the organic process of food production leads to corruption. The human corruption is based in a deep-seated guilt complex. What happens is that white American children are raised in blind…
…the God who delivers Israel out of Egypt and leads them through the Red Sea, the One who liberates the Babylonian captives, to deliver the Mizo people. The song continues:…