Tag: inequality

• Study Notes – Luke 14 7-14

  

  We are studying Luke 14:7-14 for Sunday, March 3. This text presents two of Jesus’ short discourses, delivered at a Sabbath dinner, revolving around the theme of social position. [Study questions on the text are here.] Here are my notes on this text: BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: Our text is from the gospel of Luke, which […]

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  February 26, 2019

  Text of the Week – Notes

  Bible, Bible study, exegesis, image management, inequality, Luke, Luke 14:7-14, social position

• Notes – 2 Corinthians 8 7-15

  

  The Uniform Series text we are studying for Sunday, August 12 is 2 Corinthians 8:7-15, a portion of Paul’s fund-raising appeal to the Corinthians for “the collection for the saints” (1 Corinthians 16:1). Here are my notes on the text: FIRST IMPRESSIONS: It sounds a lot like every other fund-raising letter! A little flattery, maybe […]

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  August 7, 2018

  Text of the Week – Notes

  2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 8:7-15, Bible, Bible study, exegesis, giving, grace, inequality

• The Mismeasure of Man

  My notes on: Gould, Stephen Jay. The Mismeasure of Man. Revised edition. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project] The Mismeasure of Man ended up on the “read me” shelf because our daughter had to write a research paper in English her first semester in college, in which she took […]

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  February 28, 2018

  Read Me Project

  bias, books, inequality, paradigms, Read Me Project, reading, science