Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Meaning: The Thin or Thick of It

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In teaching freshman about the Bible, I am constantly made aware of how odd Scripture is to them. This is true not only of the high number o...
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Friday, November 18, 2011

Richard Beck on Brueggemann

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Check out the promo videos, including this one where Beck talks about Brueggemann's influence on his book, Unclean.  Beck on Brueggemann...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011

A Non-Reducible Text in the Service of a Non-Reducible God

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Texts do different things. And because they do different things, they have different characteristics. The stop sign around the corner from m...
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Saturday, November 12, 2011

More on Religion and Spirituality

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A few posts ago (which was a long, long time ago), I suggested that given a choice between claiming to religious or spiritual, I would choos...
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Friday, November 11, 2011

Texts Don't Just Hold Meaning, They Create Meaning

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For awhile now, I have been a person of diminished appetites. Slowly, however, they have been returning. One of the last things to return ha...
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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Dylan on a Sunday: Blood on the Tracks

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Back to underwhelming demand, a little Dylan on a Sunday post. Truthfully, what started out as a one week idea, a modest one for even that, ...
Saturday, August 13, 2011

Mercy, Not Sacrifice: Brueggemann Comes to Rochester College

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When I was just beginning in ministry, I received the book, The Land , by Walter Brueggemann as a Christmas present. I had a big chair in th...
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