Wright’s rereading of scripture is brilliant. Too bad he’s so disparaging of other viewpoints.
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March 15 Lent 3A John 4 5 42
Rethinking the woman at the well
Are we idol worshipers
Stephen Fowl’s fresh approach to the study of idolatry
March 8 Lent 2A nbsp John 3 1 17
Like Nicodemus, Kanye shows that the Spirit blows where it chooses.
In the Qur an God is a great debater
The Qur’an is not a description of God. It’s a call to conversion.
March 1 Lent 1A Matthew 4 1 11
The devil is testing Jesus. Jesus is also testing the devil.
February 26 Ash Wednesday nbsp Matthew 6 1 6 16 21
Every year, we repeat this dusty choreography.
In the beginning God created difference
Theodore Hiebert’s deft reading elicits a fresh awareness of the legitimacy of the other in Genesis.
February 23 Transfiguration A Matthew 17 1 9
I haven’t stopped thinking about an essay I read 15 years ago when I was in seminary. My pastoral life has been a decadelong conversation with Peter Dula’s “Fugitive Ecclesia,” a chapter from his dissertation that he later published in his book Cavell, Companionship, and Christian Theology. The theologians who occupied my attention at the time, Dula pointed out, were quick to travel to other times and places in order to talk about the church, in their search for faithfulness.