Isaiah

This year, the most famous Dead Sea Scroll went on display in its entirety for the first time since 1968. The prophet’s metaphors ring as precisely as ever.

I read Lauren Winner's new book with the sort of joy one feels when watching someone utterly hit their stride.

Isaiah doesn't politely, abstractly compare God to a mother giving birth. The text suggests that God squats and pants and bellows like a moose.

“Those who enact unjust policies are as good as dead,

those who are always instituting unfair regulations,

to keep the poor from getting fair treatment. . ."

Christians of good heart and good faith sincerely disagree about whether or how biblical passages regarding homosexual behavior relate to the current debates. Exegesis is not solving the problem.
What to do? One way is to seek help from a parallel situation in the Bible, like the one Israel faced following the exile. The question was how to reconstitute the nation. With its institutions shattered, how would Israel move forward?