Tag: perspective
-
Reflecting on Psalm 9 1-12
How does the Psalmist describe justice, and its consequences, in Psalm 9? Do we recognize that description as justice, that is, as what we ourselves mean by “justice” when we use the word? This could be a big question for us as we study this psalm for Sunday, October 10. [Some notes on the text…
-
Students
Every session, as the session proceeds, my level of annoyance with the students – some of the students, at least – rises. “Are we going to need that book?” [About one of two books listed as “required,” two weeks into the course.] “I have been really busy with work, so I couldn’t take the quizzes…
-
Promise
The dullard cannot know, the stupid cannot understand this: though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever, but you, YHWH, are on high forever. Psalm 92:6-8
-
Imagined Shared Experience
Our pastor in her sermon Sunday shared the observation that “this has been the Lentiest Lent we have ever Lented.” But just as Lent differs for different people, so people are having vastly different experiences of these separated, staying at home for the sake of the pandemic times. The connections we maintain these days –…
-
All Interpretation, All the Time
One of the insights of hermeneutics is that human beings are doing interpretation all the time. It’s why we can fit in to the “real world” around us. We “read” things correctly, we know what things mean when they present themselves to us in familiar contexts, and know how to respond to them properly. And…
Matters of Interpretation 