God as parent is a radical metaphor
My youngest child turns 20 this month, which feels like a milestone. No more teenagers in the house! Everyone’s an adult (sort of)! We’ve officially launched our kids!
My youngest child turns 20 this month, which feels like a milestone. No more teenagers in the house! Everyone’s an adult (sort of)! We’ve officially launched our kids!
Now we tend to see it as a virtue—at least for some people.
Is the book of Job a tragedy or a comedy? The answer might seem obvious to you. It is perhaps obviously a tragedy: Job suffers both great loss and great physical pain. Lots of people die. Children die. Like almost all tragedies, the book is about suffering and its meaning or lack thereof.
Or maybe it seems obvious that it’s a comedy. The book has a classic comedic shape. Maybe it isn’t exactly funny, but it is placed inside a frame that is simple and even naive, with a happy ending just to be sure we understand that it is a comedy.
Abundance is not always God’s modus operandi.
Peter is hardly the first person to challenge the status quo because of something God told him in a dream.
Poet and liturgist Marcia Falk attempts to correct the gender bias of the traditional Passover Haggadah.
Tabitha’s community embraces her in her season after loss.
They put us in touch with essential things that we know to be dear or wrong.
The apostle Paul’s overlooked supporting cast