[Note: Today I’ll be reflecting on the Psalm of the day. If you’d prefer a reflection on the Epistle and Gospel of the day, feel free to check out my post from 2021 on these texts.] A couple of years ago, I was introduced to the term VUCA. It was developed decades ago by the … Continue reading Unshakable: A Reflection on Psalm 125
Several of the books I’m bringing to this series this year involve queer themes. This isn’t because of any particular agenda, but because these books often by their very nature deal with faith in a serious way. For these authors or characters, Christianity is not a comfortable old slipper that fits easily on the soul, … Continue reading Wisdom IN Literature: Enlightenment on Wrestling with God and Love
In some ways this series on the first eleven chapters of Genesis had its origin in a very bad sermon I was subjected to over twenty years ago, in which the preacher basically told the congregation that we’d all be better off ignoring Genesis 1-11 because God doesn’t become recognizable as the God of the … Continue reading Of Beginnings and Endings: Genesis 11.10-32 and concluding thoughts on Genesis 1-11
Believe it or not, we’re finally in the home stretch of this series on the first eleven chapters of Genesis, which cover what we might call biblical pre-history. Today we have one final story that traffics in mythological or legendary imagery: the story of the Tower of Babel. Integrated Summary While without any direct known … Continue reading A Tower in the Sky: Genesis 11.1-9
In the last post we saw how after the flood, God reaffirms humanity’s creation in the image of God, renews humanity’s original blessing, and establishes a covenant with all living things. But the beauty and hopefulness of that narrative is tinged with a hint of warning, for God does all this despite the fact that … Continue reading Things Fall Apart … Again: Genesis 9.18-10.32
