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Do you understand what I have done for you?
“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
Posted in Liturgical year, Scripture
Tagged footwashing, holy thursday, john 13, triduum
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Psalm of a Soiled Dove
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
Deliverance: the Movement from Pain to Praise
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
Posted in Catholic, Liturgy, Scripture, Theology
Tagged Dt 26, Ex 1, Jewish, Rosann Catalano, shared scriptures, suffering, thanksgiving
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Lectionary Reflection: Keep on keepin’ on, and when you can’t keep on no more, get some help
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
Posted in Ecclesiology, Lectionary reflection, Scripture
Tagged community, Ex 17, OT 29C, practice, prayer
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Historia, Theoria
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
A lesbian and a fundamentalist….
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
Posted in Ecumenism, Scripture
Tagged bible, dialogue, fundamentalism, love, marriage equality, progressive christianity, truth
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The Fig Tree
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
Posted in Scripture
Tagged cleansing of the temple, fig leaves, fig tree, hamerton-kelly, mimetic, mk 11, thesis
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The Hebrew Bible as Background to the Gospels
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
Parsing Paul: Quantitative and Qualitative Results
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
