At all times? (Psalm 34:1-8, 19-22)

This psalm is hard to take.

October 22, 2021

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“I will Bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.”

In his hands, the Bible was a living, aching, burning thing.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Lately I’ve been feeling the same emotions I felt when I deconstructed my evangelical faith.