Tag: Genesis 21:8-20
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Reflecting on Genesis 21 8-20
Considering the challenges of our text for Sunday, January 9, and considering how close we are to the beginning of a new year, maybe the main question this text will raise for us is: how do we want to write our own stories? What do we want our own stories to include, and to exemplify,…
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Studying Genesis 21 8-20
We are studying Genesis 21:8-20 for Sunday, January 9. This text narrates the final episode in the Biblical account of Hagar and Ishmael. Final, that is, unless you count the note in Genesis 25:9 that Isaac and Ishmael together bury their father in the cave of Machpelah. And unless we suppress all our human emotions,…
Matters of Interpretation 