February 5 Ep5A Isaiah 58 1 12
In our three-year lectionary cycle, most Hebrew Bible texts come up once at most. Isaiah 58 is assigned five times. We justice-minded Christians tend to find additional reasons to turn to it as well.
In our three-year lectionary cycle, most Hebrew Bible texts come up once at most. Isaiah 58 is assigned five times. We justice-minded Christians tend to find additional reasons to turn to it as well.
If so, what did he mean?
Jacques Ellul diagnosed the problem. Paul Patton and Robert Woods offer some solutions.
In June 2020, I was invited to give a virtual conference to youth from the United Methodist Church of Peru. At that time, the COVID pandemic was at its worst, and many people were dying worldwide. Like most of us, those who attended the conference were anxious, sad, afraid, and discouraged. Many of them had lost family members and members of their church community to the virus.
The mental maps we make tell us who we are and where we belong.
What are you looking for? It’s a good question, maybe the only question.
River baptisms are becoming a casualty of polluted waters.
In summer 2020, I was at home between my freshman and sophomore years of college, riding out the pandemic, when I decided to paint my childhood bedroom. Alone, sweating, bored, miserable, and quite literally watching paint dry, I fell down a YouTube rabbit hole.
At her funeral, I gathered with scholars, family, and friends to celebrate the womanist theologian’s world-changing gifts.