Tag: Thanksgiving
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Harvest Home
Granted, this year we will be joining our future in-laws and their family for a holiday celebration to which we’ve been generously invited, and we will be living in the present and making new memories … even so … I always spend Thanksgiving with my mom and dad … … in the car, late at…
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Studying Psalm 9 1-12
For the needy shall not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the poor perish forever. Psalm 9:18 Psalm 9:18 is one of my favorite verses in the Bible. It’s utopian, in the sense that it asserts the possibility of a world that is otherwise than the current one with its “realistic” options. We are…
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First Things First
We are studying James 2:1-13 for Sunday, November 29 – the part of James 2 we DIDN’T study this past August and two years before that, as providence and the Committee on the Uniform Series would have it. I will post notes. But probably not until Friday, what with grading, and cooking, and the commonsensically-risk-managed-but-not-100%-cancelled…
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Way to Give Thanks
Here’s Mary, Jesus’ mom, giving thanks: My soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has looked with favor on the lowliness of his servant. Surely, from now on all generations will call me blessed; for the Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his…
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Over the River and Through the Woods
Psalms 120-134 are each labeled “a song of ascents.” I learned, somewhere, that the “ascent” in question was the trip from anywhere to Jerusalem, which is up in the hill country, during the pilgrimage festivals (Tabernacles, Passover, and Pentecost). But according to Chabad, which probably knows more than the average white Christian seminarian, there are…
Matters of Interpretation 