Category Archives: What I’m Reading

What is the message of the book of Job, for those of us who are enduring unjust suffering? Perhaps we can hear what the Lord would tell us more clearly from summarizing the story from a slightly different angle. Job … Continue reading →

Look! My servant whom I have chosen, My beloved in whom my soul is well pleased! I will put my Spirit upon him And judgment to the nations he will announce. He will not quarrel nor cry out, Nor will … Continue reading →

And he came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to … Continue reading →

After watching a film on the life of Dietrich Bonheoffer a few days ago, the question of violence has been tugging insistently at my heart. Naturally, then, I would like to explore the text at the heart of Bonheoffer’s peculiar … Continue reading →

In my work as campus minister at a Christian school, it often falls to me to answer questions from my Southern Baptist co-workers regarding some of my allegiance to the Christian year. A few days ago a farmer working on … Continue reading →

In an article, ‘The Costly Loss of Lament’ [JSOT (1986) 57-71], Walter Brueggemann address the manner in which lament seems to have dropped out of the ‘functioning canon’, identifying some of the unfortunate results of this. One loss that results … Continue reading →

And as Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed Him, for they had all been waiting for Him. And behold, there came a man named Jairus, and he was an official of the synagogue; and he fell at Jesus’ feet, and began … Continue reading →

Jesus told a parable one time about a Pharisee (super-religious guy) and a tax-collector (scum-of-the-earth). They both went to the Temple in Jerusalem to pray to God. The Pharisee thanked God that he was not as bad as other people. … Continue reading →