…responds to the voices emerging from the wilderness. But in my sacred scripture there is the story of one of those wilderness voices: Jesus, the man of Nazareth, the Christ…
…symbolic usage in Hebrew Scripture, salt was overwhelmingly viewed as a positive resource. Not only does salt add flavor to food (cf. Matthew 5:17), it also preserves certain foods such…
…politics of exclusion garbed in the language of oneness. Pentecost holds a prominent place in Christian history and religiosity. While our understanding and interpretation of it might differ based on…
…(Revelation 1:7)? How it makes me long for Advent’s anticipation of the infant Christ, come to transform the world in love. Of course, the Scripture passages for this week would…
…he was speaking of the temple of his body. 22After he was raised from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this; and they believed the scripture and…
…to elude the non-Native population and plague the experiences of Indigenous Peoples. Reading the scripture in the book of Mark through the lens of Indigenous experience offers an opportunity for…
…various possible meanings of the Hebrew term bereshith, the term with which the book of Genesis—and the Scripture as a whole—begins. This term enjoys added significance by virtue of the…
…that they have been “led astray (planao), that you know neither the scripture nor the power of God” (Mark 12:24). In Mark 12:27, Jesus again tells the Sadducees that they…
…to craft Christian scripture – eloquently proclaims that the wisdom of the world is entirely at odds with the wisdom of God, or as verse 20 notably states, “foolishness”. This…
…day we honor the Eucharist, though the Scripture taken from John makes no direct mention of the verses more commonly associated with Holy Communion. Jesus’ washing of his disciples’ feet…
…and obscure. It is somewhat fortuitous, therefore, that this piece of Christian scripture presents itself at this particular moment of global memory, when the world is wrestling with the twin…
…mention of sources such as scripture, tradition, or natural law, the engagement is tortured and lazy. Its use of the Bible proves the point. There are references to Biblical texts,…