1 Happy are those who do not follow the advice of the wicked, or take the path that sinners tread, or sit in the seat of scoffers; 2 but their…
The national media spotlight is focused on the 2016 presidential campaign, and attention to national politics will only intensify as we move into the primaries and the general election season…
…without God’s aid. He is merely God’s servant (verses 5 and 8; Hebrew: ‘eved, “slave,” perhaps “vassal”). With a searing double entendre, God reminds David of his inauspicious origins: he…
…argued peer-reviewed journal article. In light of this very brief summary of complex arguments here is an example of the ‘blurred’ urban political theology that I am searching for….For the…
…hardship. The most common form was the amulet, deeply influenced by Egyptian styles and practices: scarabs, seals, anthropomorphic figures, objects like the Horus-eye, moon, or Djed-pillar, and animal figurines. The…
…caravan are symptomatic of an “epistemic crisis” in American democracy, in which a significant number of Americans inhabit a “hermetically sealed ecosystem of knowledge, news, and information in which nonsense…
…God. Accept the images That God has provided. They are everywhere… God is Change— Seed to Tree, Tree to forest; Rain to river, River to sea: Grubs to bees, Bees…
…took a back seat to his colleagues who did the actual heavy lifting of ecumenism out of its piecemeal infancy and into the WCC. The rapidity of ecumenical development during…
…the air, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes along the paths of the seas. 9O LORD, our Sovereign, how majestic is your name in all the earth! Job…
…Lecture on the Humanities at the Kennedy Center across the river in Washington. Hearing Berry tell the story of his grandfather’s rural economic hardship in 1907 while seated in the…
…our neighbors in love. But if we consume Scripture only in selective fragments—especially if we consume it primarily while alone, seated at a desk or staring at a phone—the words…
…the skies, separating them from the waters for rains, and worked hard on the land to divide the waters into seas and the dry land into earth, where it brought…