There is nothing special about this text. It just happened to come up today in the course of my reading and rereading my favorite book. Many other Old Testament texts have similar features. But as you will see, if you read on, this text, read in light of current events, left me with a question. Continue reading “A text and a question (2 Chronicles 15:13)”
Author Archives: James Ernest
Hearing “The Partisan” in St. Malo
American reflections on visiting the French coastal city reduced to rubble in All the Light We Cannot See
Inviting Jesus (Mark 2:13–17)
We are to invite, and to offer a Jesus who invites: an inviting Jesus.
Nakba as source of theological insight?
Will the Nabka now force
My life on bicycles
About my bicycles . . .
Longing for Zion (Psalm 72)
Ask me to declare myself a Zionist when you can show me Zion. I am not seeing it yet.
Coping with coworkers
Paul versus the drama volcano?
Does the gospel have implications for society?
CNN’s John Blake, in an article that you should read, calls attention to how UAW president Shawn Fain drew upon his Christian faith, and on words of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew, to fortify the courage of auto workers headed into the recently concluded strike. It’s a good article. For friends who know whereContinue reading “Does the gospel have implications for society?”
The strong, the weak, and the church’s sex-and-gender crisis (Romans 15:1–7)
How does Romans 15:1–7 bear on the question of full welcome for gays in the church?
Eliminationist homophobia in Ottawa County
Most eliminationist homophobes would be aghast at any suggestion that they are promoting genocide, but from the hateful speech that we hear from some of them, even in public places such as our school board meetings, I believe that some of them, if given access to a button which if pushed would instantly obliterate 400 million people (a very crude estimate of the number of people in the world who identify as LGBTQ), would quickly and gladly push that button.
Verba Sparsa 