…my bones; I am weary with holding it in, and I cannot” (Jeremiah 20:9). Readers of scripture familiar with the recorded echoes of those who have suffered in history are…
…(or is not) used in Christian ethics, I must first begin to complicate their understanding of scripture. Wink’s interpretation proves very helpful for this—it may be even more accessible for…
…religion universally must posit a ‘transhistorical and transcultural’ essence, an essence that is distinct and so insulated from power and politics” (48). Bush locates the disciplinary shift and critique of…
…you with respect to politics, to investments, to understanding history. The gift of Wisdom is sweet: perspective and understanding and what the Scriptures call betach, a refined trust that fully…
…would give pacifist Christians a practical political program endorsed directly by none other than Jesus himself. Only problem is, it is a really bad reading of scripture. Walter Wink’s reading…
…of epistemological dualism, the cross of Jesus Christ according to Scripture radically eliminates all thinking in terms of “us” vs. “them.” The narrative of the crucifixion in the canonical gospels…
…to notice the ways in which economic language seeps into theology and to be attentive to the ways in which interpretations of scripture can either reinscribe exploitative harm or help…
…I paused to write another book, Inhabiting Eden: Christians, the Bible, and the Ecological Crisis. I wrote this book not because I believe the Christian scriptures offer modern people a…
…4:16-21 there’s a Genesis 19, a Romans 1, a 1 Timothy 2:12. It doesn’t really matter what scripture says because we each wear our ideological safety vests and have our…
…they attend the Lutheran Church of Saint Andrew. This article is part of the series, the Politics of Scripture. While the focus of the series is on weekly preaching texts,…
…not always about the way scripture speaks to those who are in high positions of power. Politics is about the life of a community of people dwelling together for the…
…This seems to be a good time to speak of non-dualism, a concept that, although present throughout Scripture, has been an open secret kept alive by the mystics of all…