Day: July 26, 2018

• Wise Up

  

  Is this the Bible warning us not to listen to “yes men”? Or, “alternative facts”? Maybe. The story is in 2 Chronicles 18 (and 1 Kings 22). King Jehoshaphat of Judah (one of the “good kings”) says “That’s not the way a king should talk! Let’s hear what he has to say” (New Living Translation). […]

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  July 26, 2018

  Something New in the Bible

  Bible, facts, politics, religion, texts that aren't in the lectionary, wisdom

• Revelations, on Revelation

  

  Elaine Pagels. Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, & Politics in the Book of Revelation. New York: Penguin, 2012. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project] Revelations by Elaine Pagels made its way to the “Read Me” shelf because learning something more about the Bible, church history and early church politics always sounds like a good thing. If […]

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  July 26, 2018

  Read Me Project

  books, New Testament, reading, religion, revelation, tradition