Tag: symbolism
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Studying Revelation 19 1-8
We will get to think about a pair of striking Revelation-style images this week, “the whore of Babylon” and “the bride of the Lamb.” We find both in Revelation 19:1-8, the text for Sunday, November 21. The Buddhist philosopher Nagarjuna said, of one of the important doctrines of that religion, that “grasping it wrongly is…
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Studying Revelation 7 9-17
We probably don’t often think of God as a rock star. But we might need to start, now that we are studying Revelation 7:9-17 for Sunday, November 7. A central feature of the text is a screaming crowd too large for anyone to count, which would put the average stadium rock concert to shame. Here…
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Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
A very short and possibly overly personal reflection on the topic of the Uniform Series text (Genesis 17:1-14) for Sunday, September 10, which was also the Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time: It was difficult. It was difficult to do the exegesis on this text, it was difficult to think about it, it was difficult to…
Matters of Interpretation 