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Bible: Body of Christ, bodies of women

“You’re either with our bodies or against our bodies,” Amber Tamblyn wrote recently in The New York Times, responding to the flood of revelations of

Meghan Florian

December 18, 2017

Bible: The baby who threatened a king

Acts 14 showcases the people’s impulse to make gods of human leaders. Listening to Paul and Barnabas speak, seeing them manifest God’s power, the people

Meghan Florian

December 4, 2017

Bible: Eyes open to wonders

Acts 3:11-21 picks up after a miraculous occurrence: Peter and John pass a beggar, lame from birth, as they go to the temple to pray.

Meghan Florian

November 20, 2017

Bible: Yes, worship does something

Afriend once waxed poetic about the peace he experienced when receiving the communion wafer in the Catholic mass. Since I had been reared on a

Brad Roth

November 6, 2017

Bible: Channeling the zeal of Phinehas

There may be nothing more unsettling to the (post)modern mind than zeal. Faith’s OK, many suppose, so long as it’s small and well-behaved, trotted out

Brad Roth

October 23, 2017

Bible: No faith without struggle

When we visit family in Lima, Peru, that cement city hustling under a concrete sky, we’re always a little taken aback by the traffic. Though

Brad Roth

October 9, 2017

Bible: Abraham’s stardust children

It would have been a strange thing to do, cutting all those animals in half, if God hadn’t told Abram to do it. But that’s

Brad Roth

September 25, 2017

Bible: High-stakes Sabbath

At my ordination interview, I didn’t give the best answer when the committee asked me about my practices of self-care. “One day each week I

Brad Roth

September 11, 2017

Bible: A covenant of moral fruitfulness

Once I interviewed a Pentecostal pastor for a seminary project. He was famous locally for his prison ministry and outreach — as well as for

Brad Roth

August 28, 2017

Bible: Breaking a thousand-year tradition

I’m thinking of a fable where a wolf is accepted into lamb society. As Aesop tells it, the wolf in sheep’s clothing is a fraud.

Duane Beachey

August 14, 2017

Bible: The food committee leads the way

What great lessons this month for antiracism and breaking down racial-ethnic barriers! When the Greek-speaking Jews complained their widows were being slighted in the distribution

Duane Beachey

July 31, 2017

Bible: Tasty scroll with bitter words

During children’s time in the church basement when I was a child, often we saw an “object lesson.” The teacher had some ordinary object from

Duane Beachey

July 17, 2017

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