Day: March 22, 2018

• Just Say No More

  

  Noticed in today’s reading: “Nor shall you accept ransom for one who has fled to a city of refuge, enabling the fugitive to return to live in the land before the death of the high priest. You shall not pollute the land in which you live; for blood pollutes the land, and no expiation can […]

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  March 22, 2018

  Something New in the Bible

  Bible, Bible study, blood, Hebrew Bible, Numbers, Numbers 35:32, pollution, purity systems, reading, religion

• More on “Tradition in Action”

  

  Notes on Awake to the Moment1, “Tradition in Action” (69-104): The second chapter of Awake to the Moment discusses Christian “tradition” as a resource for constructive theology. What most readers probably think of as tradition, “sets of shared meanings and practices that repeat, or have continuity with, the past” poses both “problems and possibilities” for […]

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  March 22, 2018

  Reading Theology

  Christianity, constructive theology, critical thinking, religion, theology, tradition