Category Archives: Scripture

Do you understand what I have done for you?

Posted on April 16, 2017 by

“What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.” Jesus had gone on to explain that he was giving them an example, and that they should wash one another’s feet, so they had almost forgotten … Continue reading →

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Psalm of a Soiled Dove

Posted on December 20, 2014 by

Crossposted from BLT **What follows is a flight of theological imagination** Psalm 84 The original author of this psalm was a young woman, perhaps a Midianite, who was ravished away from her home by a pillaging army and forced to … Continue reading →

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Deliverance: the Movement from Pain to Praise

Posted on November 10, 2013 by

I recently attended a talk given by Dr. Rosann Catalano, a Roman Catholic theologian and scholar at the Institute for Christian-Jewish Studies, on the topic of pain and suffering in the Bible. Dr. Catalano (who is an excellent speaker, by … Continue reading →

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Lectionary Reflection: Keep on keepin’ on, and when you can’t keep on no more, get some help

Posted on October 20, 2013 by

I loved today’s first reading from Exodus 17. When Moses has his hands lifted up to God, Israel prevails; when he lets his hands rest, Amalek prevails. So what does he do? Well, actually, the question is, what do Aaron … Continue reading →

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Historia, Theoria

Posted on October 17, 2013 by

in the Alexandrian tradition of biblical exegesis … every Old Testament narrative (historia) is expected to have a corresponding Christian allegorical meaning (theōria). – Richard Bauckham, writing about the The Bride of God or the Lost Gospel of Joseph and … Continue reading →

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A lesbian and a fundamentalist….

Posted on July 14, 2013 by

Read this powerful witness from Kimberly Knight, a lesbian progressive Christian laywoman, about her in-person conversation with Billy Humphrey, a straight fundamentalist Christian minister: A lesbian and a fundamentalist walk into a bar. Substantive conversations across such an ecclesial and … Continue reading →

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The Fig Tree

Posted on June 25, 2013 by

I’m reading Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly’s The Gospel and the Sacred: Poetics of Violence in Mark, and am really engaged by some of the ideas he proposes. Here’s one of them. The pericope of the fig tree has puzzled me & … Continue reading →

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Check out the theological Star Trek humor over at Exploring Our Matrix.

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The Hebrew Bible as Background to the Gospels

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

Phillip Long is doing another good series, this one on Background to the Gospels. The primary “background” for the Gospels is the Hebrew Bible. Anyone who approaches the Gospels without a knowledge of the history and culture of the Hebrew … Continue reading →

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Parsing Paul: Quantitative and Qualitative Results

Posted on September 9, 2012 by

The paper pretty much followed my original plans. In the final paper, which I titled Parsing Paul: Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Commentary on Six Passages from Romans[1], I examined commentary on verses 3:20-30, 4:25, 5:5, 6:19-23, 8:30-33, and 10:3-9, in … Continue reading →

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