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Who gets to complain?

It's time for us to hear the song of Moses and Miriam in a new way.

The psalter’s wisdom, illuminated from five perspectives

Loving the neighbor with whom we disagree

When I taught sixth-grade language arts, I used a set of diagrams called graphic organizers to help my students organize their thoughts. We used Venn diagrams to compare and contrast, writing differences in the outside portions of the overlapping circles and similarities in the center where the two circles meet. To sort ideas into categories, we used a very simple kind of graphic organizer: two columns. One column might be titled “books of the Old Testament” and the other “books of the New Testament.” They’re mutually exclusive. The divisions are clear.