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What would possess me to copy a chapter of the Bible by hand?

Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text.

We are still asking Mary's question: How will this be?

John the Baptist has a brand.

“What genre is the Bible?” she asked me, over a table full of half-empty wineglasses and scattered paperbacks.

There was a distinct breeze as the heads of everyone else in the book group turned to look at me, pastor, resident theological answer dispenser. I sipped from my glass and said, quietly, “Mythology.”

Her eyes grew wide in shock, but I wouldn’t retract what I said. I piled on, “Myths give meaning. Calling it mythology doesn’t make it untrue. It’s just what is. It becomes something more when you accept it, trust it, shape your life around it.”

The stark liturgical space that Harvard Episcopal chaplain Rita Powell envisioned before COVID is now a reality.

In Advent, we expect the unexpected.