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I thought this was kind of cool. Why I love the study of scripture. Three separate sources all connecting with a similar thread yesterday: Regent College Podcast Episode 209: Reading the Scriptures in Israel-Palestine Today – With Dr. Yohanna KatanachoThis is an interview with Katanacho about his new book called “The Land of Christ: AContinue reading “The Land, The Scattering, and the Genesis of God’s Love Demonstated in Love of Other”

Speaking of the relationship of justice to the Christian story and Gospel, author Douglas Harink in his book Resurrecting Justice: Reading Romans for the Life of the World addresses the role of the Law in Paul’s mind. He writes, “IN ALMOST EVERYONE’S MIND, justice and law, if not the same thing, are very closely relatedContinue reading “Justice, Law, and the Counter-Cultural Nature of Jesus: Reading Romans”

So this might be controversial to some, which will continue to surprise me (but not at the same time I guess). But I’ll say this anyways since it is a thought that has been on my mind. It seems logical to expect that if a God who decides to incarnate Godself into a particular pointContinue reading “A Month of Pride: Wrestling With Scripture and the Christian Response to LBGTQ+”

Movies The Innocents (Eskil Vogt, 2022) This is the kind of film that lets the questions it raises linger. It’s a slow burn and it’s also a horror piece, but both of these aspects play a role in telling a deeply committed human drama about what it means to be a child in a worldContinue reading “Month in Review: My Favorite Watches, Reads, Listens For May, 2022”

I thought this was kind of cool. Why I love the study of scripture. Three separate sources all connecting with a similar thread yesterday: Regent College Podcast Episode 209: Reading the Scriptures in Israel-Palestine Today – With Dr. Yohanna Katanacho This is an interview with Katanacho about his new book called “The Land of Christ:Continue reading “The Land, The Blessing and the Seed: Reading Genesis and Romans Together”

“I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: “Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:‘The deliverer will come from Zion; he wil turn godlessnessContinue reading “Romans 9-11: Reclaiming the Story of Israel”

“May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you a spirit of unity among yourselves as you follow Christ Jesus, so that with one heart and mouth you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise toContinue reading “Romans 15,16: God’s Wrath, God’s Kindness, and the Path From Sin To Justice”

Reading with much fear and trembling in Romans 13 this morning. If Romans is a highly contentous book in Christian theology, this chapter, or at least the first 7 verses, might reflect the height of this tension given how it has been used to justify nationalism, political and religious allegiances, violence, and, of course, appealsContinue reading “Romans 13: Death, Taxes and Reclaiming Justice”

Movies You Won’t Be Alone (2022, Goran Stolveski) “It’s a burning, breaking thing, this world. A biting, wretching thing.” It’s only once the fullness of this story comes to fruition, conflicted as it is by the great tension of what it means to be human in largely uncaring and unconscious universe, that the horrific andContinue reading “Month in Review: Favorite Watches, Reads and Listens For April, 2022”

I was recently asked why my focus on justice. What do I mean by this word or idea playing a pivotal role in my own journey, something I find myself coming back to at certain intersections of thought and belief (or perhaps hoped for transformation, to give that a more positive angle). One of theContinue reading “Revisiting Paul’s Letter to the Romans: My Journey With Justice Inside and Outside of the Church”