Tag: politics and religion
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Love of neighbor
If that were true which you have affirmed, that you have obeyed the commandment of love from youth (Mark 10:20), and have given to everyone as much as to yourself, whence, I ask, have you all this wealth? For the care of the poor consumes wealth, when each one receives a little for one’s needs,…
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Reflecting on Isaiah 58 6-14
Does Isaiah 58 seem like a “political” text to us? What makes it seem that way? …
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Education and Partisanship
reading an article by Eric Levitz on “educational polarization” and its impact on US partisan politics
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“Powers and Principalities”
racism is a demonic power, in the sense of the “principalities and powers” – !
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A Model of Abundance
“What Did the Early Church Say About Economic Justice?” – from Plough – this morning’s email. Image: “Stilleben: Alter Wein und Brot,” Albert Anker, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
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A gloomier perspective
It struck me this afternoon that I have never heard anyone quote Job 3 in connection with the issue of abortion. Though it’s as much a part of the Bible as Jeremiah 1:5 or Psalm 139:14. Images: Albert Anker, “Ältere Frau in der Bibel lesend,” 1904 public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; “Job” by Andreas Neumann-Nochten,…
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Reflecting on 2 Kings 22 14-20
We are studying 2 Kings 22:14-20 for Sunday, March 21. This is the story where King Josiah of Judah sends a delegation to the prophet Huldah to confirm that the “book of the law” he has just heard is an authentic word from God. His next step, described in 2 Kings 23, will be to…
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Twenty-first Sunday in Ordinary Time
Our preacher of the day told us he was 12 years old before he realized that not all old people had Dutch accents. Up till then, he’d more or less assumed that people just started to talk that way as they aged, since all the grandparent-aged people he knew had Dutch accents. Because he grew…
Matters of Interpretation 