The original “Do you believe…” person asked me today to send him all my Hebrew Bible notes for the whole semester so far. I’m torn.
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Last week, in an informal, Hebrew Bible-related roundtable lunch discussion, one of my classmates called me out. “Do you believe that Jesus is the Son of God?” he asked as he pointed at me. “Yes,” I said, and just as he started to turn and relax, I added, “But I don’t believe that he’s uniquely [...] I sit down at my computer. It is Ostara, the first day of solar spring, and the day after the biggest-seeming full moon in a generation, I watch a robin. His breast is puffed out in classic robin-redbreast style, and he is poking around in the just-waking garden. He pulls his head back hard and [...] Come, come to the table, all who are weary or hungry, and without trade or money. Come, come to the table, all full to bursting with only the fruit of anxious toil. Come to this table; be filled by love. Let us come to the table. (communicants come around the table if space allows) Here [...] As I have written here before, on a beautiful day in October, I was privileged to experience my father’s ashes, the dust of his body, swirling around me in the wind, catching in my clothes, entering my lungs, and traveling slowly down Laurel Run, down, down, down towards the Chesapeake. With poignant joy and gentle [...] |
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