Tag: resistance
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“Safe Space”
Why would Matthew put this story of death and destruction and displacement right at the beginning of this gospel? Maybe to remind us …
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Studying Ezra 10 1-12
Please be forewarned: people who are looking for a conventionally pious reading of Ezra 10:1-12, the text we are studying for Sunday, April 11, will not find it here. I think a lot is at stake in how we read this text, honestly. I think that if we accept the moral wisdom and the God-ordained…
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Thoughts on God’s Will
Friends of mine have invoked the theme of God’s will to condemn the demonstrations that have occurred in the past several days in the wake of the recent election. I don’t know that they have Calvin’s doctrine of providence in mind when they say this; maybe they are just thinking about Romans 13:1-10, which counsels…
Matters of Interpretation 