Today is the first ‘real’ post of my new series, Our Common Cause: An Integral study of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans. Romans is a letter that is important not only for what it says, but also for how much weight Christians have placed on it over the centuries. Since there’s no better place to … Continue reading Awkward Introductions: Romans 1.1-7, Part 1
Two thousand years ago, the Apostle Paul wrote a letter to the churches in Rome. This letter turned out to be one of the most widely studied, debated, and influential books of the Christian Scriptures. It is equal parts insightful and confounding; it opens up the heart and yet remains resistant to being opened up … Continue reading Our Common Cause – An Integral Study of Paul’s Epistle to the Romans: Introduction
Today marks the end of this series exploring the way conceptions of God and our relation to God evolved through the ‘sacred history’ of the Scriptures. We’ve seen how one man’s personal covenant with a local god, in which he’d be blessed with land and a family line, evolved step by step into a covenant … Continue reading The God(s) of the Generations
This series has looked at the ways in which people of faith — and the witness they left behind in the stories included in the Scriptures — understood their experiences of God changed over the course of the Bible. So far, all of this has been in (and after) what we Christians call the Old … Continue reading The God of the Apostles
Last time we saw how the experience of Exile had a profound and transformational impact on Hebrew religion. While any statement generalizing the beliefs of tens of thousands of people is going to be oversimplified, we might say that the old Judaite elite left a destroyed Jerusalem monolaters of a local god they believed had … Continue reading The God of Judea
