Week 3 (Year 2, NL)

Those of us who wrestle with God have no guarantee that things will turn out well.

I am struck by how Christ’s desert experience relies on inner convictions resisting an external voice.

If they had been the ones presiding over Jesus’ trial, says biblical scholar Israel Knohl, there wouldn’t have been a crucifixion.

We fix our gaze on the cross because if we look away we will miss something vital.

So I took a new name—as many characters in the Bible do.

In Oberammergau, the keepers of a centuries-old tradition have made
big changes—including efforts to expunge antisemitic material.

“Each of the typical approaches has problems. The best solution would be to change the lectionary.”

What does it mean to protect women and girls?

Throughout scripture, human bodies are not an obstacle to righteousness; they are its location.

Did Easter even come last year? Will it ever come again?

Who is Jacob wrestling with?

3 reasons the warfare metaphor is problematic

My hermeneutic of suspicion wasn’t enough. I needed a hermeneutic of the hip.

God is the encounter we can't control.

Struggling with whether to abandon my Korean name made me think about the queerness in all of our identities.

I'm authorized to open seals, drive the chariot of fire, and pour out bowls of judgment. But wrestling someone?