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Category Archives: Scripture
Choosing my stories
Do I choose the stories I retell, or do they choose me? I frequently see lists of favorite books online, or of formatively important books, or of great classic books you ought to have read, so bold the ones you … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Reading, Inner Work, Memoir, Scripture
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Power had gone out of him
Since I quoted Fred Clark’s Contemporary American Version of a story from the Gospel of Luke, I feel I should also share his comments on the New Revised Standard Version translation and what it says about some very current issues: … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Quotes, Scripture, Society and Culture
Tagged feminism, fred clark, gospel, gospel of luke, reproductive rights, slack, woman with an issue of blood
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The Bible is a story
I want to poke some more at something I quoted a couple of days ago: Leslie Keeney’s wise and funny statement that the Bible is more like The Lord of the Rings than The Collected Sayings of Gandalf. Evangelicals, she … Continue reading
Posted in Scripture, Theory and Practice
Tagged anais nin, c.s. lewis, creation, dante, divine comedy, dorothy sayers, incarnation, j.r.r. tolkien, john donne, madeleine l'engle, Poetry, song of songs, story, t.s. eliot, trinity
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Christianity’s authoritative document—the document that God intended us to have—looks more like The Lord of the Rings than The Collected Sayings of Gandalf. It is what it is—and what it is is a narrative. Why Are People Afraid to Admit … Continue reading
Morning Psalm
1 O God, you are my God; eagerly I seek you; * my soul thirsts for you, my flesh faints for you, as in a barren and dry land where there is no water. 2 Therefore I have … Continue reading
The narrative of Genesis and the genesis of creativity
In late Advent I returned to one of my core spiritual practices: Saying the Daily Office from the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. The Office of Morning and Evening Prayer involves repeated exposure to Scripture; each day there are psalms, … Continue reading
Posted in Scripture
Tagged Ancient Order of Druids, Art of Biblical Narrative, Bible, Book of Genesis, druid, druid revival, Genesis, john michael greer, midrash, story, talmud
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