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Whose Lord’s Prayer? Whose Same Womb?
Suzanne’s post gives us context to consider “wombly feelings, family loyalty” as understood by “the brother and sister” who are “of the “same womb, biologically related,” children and then adults who...
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Matthew’s Political Baby Jesus
The language of Matthew’s gospel – the Greek of the nativity of Jesus – is political. We readers today can do our best to imagine who the original intended readers were. I believe much is clearly lost...
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Canadian Women of Valour
Sort of imitating Rachel Held Evans here, but for good reason. Of course, I really want to talk about hockey – we are so proud of our women, as well as our men! And my sister just saw K. D. Lang...
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Pagnini and Pico della Mirandola
This is just one more thinking out loud, and where do I save this information, kind of post. I was reading the description of Michael Law’s book on the Septuagint, When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint...
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Sarah Palin’s waters of biblical immersion
“Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we’d baptize terrorists,” exclaimed Sarah Palin to rounds of applause this weekend. You know this already, since there’s already...
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Whose History? Catholics, Protestants, and waterboarding as baptism
In Kurk’s discussion of Sarah Palin’s equation of baptism with water torture, he pointed out that there were medieval precedents in ecclesial discourse for such juxtapositions and even equivalences. I...
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The SBC Binary of Al Mohler and the Biblical Spectrum of Marriage and Sexuality
Wilson argues that, even as he has come to affirm same-sex behaviors and relationships, the issue need not divide congregations or Christians. Pastor Cortez cited Wilson’s argument as foundational to...
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70th Anniversary of D-Day
D-Day is such a tragic and heroic event of our present history that it is difficult for me to come fully to terms with it. This photographic exhibition from The Guardian helped; it shows images from...
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The 9th of Av, 1914
ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH by WILFRED OWEN What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? —Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty...
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Sexualized Racism: Crucifying Jews and Lynching Blacks
[René] Girard compellingly argues that human sexuality often incites a violent response. He shows this in terms of marriage and community relationships…. He says, “Sexuality leads to quarrels, jealous...
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5 More Cities Allowing Students to Read the Letter from a Birmingham Jail for...
This Friday in 2015 before the USA Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday, news sources in America are reporting the following: Five More Cities Allowing Students to See Selma for Free Program [in...
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Whose Vietnam War? Mine, Yours, Theirs?
Today, on this the 40th anniversary of the fall of Sài Gòn, I’m reading Where the Ashes Are: The Odyssey of a Vietnamese Family by Nguyễn Quí Đức. There is a wikipedia entry on him, in English only...
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The Hellish Southern Baptist Obligation
My parents were career missionaries with the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention of the United States of America. While the US military went to Vietnam to save it from Communism,...
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Paul Tournier on the Superiority of the White Race
Paul Tournier is a Swiss physician whose writings influenced my American missionary parents greatly. I asked my mother recently if she’d read his The Violence Within (translated by Edwin Hudson for...
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minor re/visions of 9/11
I remember the day, 9/11/2001, like it was yesterday. I was a student in New York City. I’d been living there for a while at that time—I was still adjusting to being in the big city. I was a Native...
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Top news stories of 2013?
I’ve scanned a number of lists of “top news of 2013,” but to my surprise, none of the ones I looked at included what was undoubtedly one of the most important stories of 2013: the discovery of Richard...
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Speaking Out: Junia, Suzanne, Ruth
Interesting. A woman’s average age for being diagnosed with breast cancer is about 60, and average age of dying of breast cancer is 68. But the average age of a woman dying of heart attack is 70....
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Peacemakers (before the sermon on the mount)
Men, Spartans: In your foreign post, I am not alone. Father to father to father it’s been held, given to generations. I wish to make this clear to you all also. The City State holds all of us to this...
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The American Heritage of a Few deciding for the Others
Not long after [white man] Thomas Jefferson wrote the “Declaration of Independence,” a free black [man] wrote Jefferson asking if the “all men are created equal”phrase applied to blacks [that is, to...
View ArticleOrigen on Junia: a new translation with commentary by Bridget Jack Jeffries
Origen’s comments prove interesting because, not only does he confirm that Junia was an apostle in some sense, he says she was possibly a member of the seventy-two who were commissioned by Christ in...
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