Unforgiveness is like fire that smolders in the belly, like smoke that smothers the soul. Sittser, Jerry. “A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss.” Zondervan.
Theology
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When do we forgive? Is it only after the one who has sinned against us (offended us) has asked for forgiveness? Or should we forgive them whether they ask for forgiveness or not? This is a discussion I had not long ago with a friend and something I had thought a LOT about […]
Sunday before last was the Second Sunday of Advent. Our readings were Malachi 3:1-4, Philippians 1:3-11, and Luke 3:1-6. The Gospel reads in part The word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness. 3 He went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming a baptism of […]
Theology and the Bible should never be separated. (Unless it is systematic theology. After all, the Bible isn’t very systematic.) I “overheard” this on a listserv today. A priest proudly describing her sermon: It was pure theology, no specific biblical references. That is wrong on so many levels. I think […]
A link of Facebook (sorry, I don’t remember who posted it) took me to “Running Heads” blog. I was not familiar with it before, but this post was about baptism and it and the comments resonated with something I have long maintained. Modern American Evangelicalism has an odd intellectualism that […]
Months ago I wrote that the proofs were in and now it is all ready, just in time for SBL. The book is Great Is Thy Faithfulness? Reading Lamentations as Sacred Scripture and was edited by Robin Parry and Heath Thomas. For anyone wanting to do work in Lamentations and its interpretation this is going […]
The original of this work can be found here. More can be found at 20 Calvin and Hobbes Mashups | ForeverGeek.
Or why didn’t God realize that the sheep weren’t going to do it for the Man? Gen. 2.18 Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper as his partner.” 19 So out of the ground the LORD […]
Gen. 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. 8 And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom […]
The full quote, from The Club of Queer Trades by G.K. Chesterton, is Then we [two men having just met] had talked for about an hour about politics and God; for men always talk about the most important things to total strangers. It is because in the total stranger we […]