Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy Up to a certain point, reading one book of the Bible at a time (or, sometimes, one segment of one book of…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 27 October 2013 (Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Joel 2:23-32 and Psalm 65  • Sirach 35:12-17 or Jeremiah 14:7-10, 19-22 and Psalm 84:1-7  • 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18  • Luke 18:9-14 Two things boggle my mind,…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy If the stories of the Biblical text are the core of the testimony (as I discussed in BrueggeBlog 2), certain questions arise:…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 20 October 2013 (Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 31:27-34 and Psalm 119:97-104  • Genesis 32:22-31 and Psalm 121  • 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5  • Luke 18:1-8 When a passage in the Bible leaves us…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy My own Brueggemann revolution started with grammar: the main way that Israel articulates the core testimony about YHWH is in the form…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 13 October 2013 (Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7 and Psalm 66:1-12  • 2 Kings 5:1-3, 7-15c and Psalm 111  • 2 Timothy 2:8-15  • Luke 17:11-19 Sometimes Biblical passages just beg…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy There are all sorts of good things about defending one’s dissertation.  I never have to correct a student again when he addresses…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 6 October 2013 (20th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Lamentations 1:1-6 and Lamentations 3:19-26 or Psalm 137  • Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4 and Psalm 37:1-9  • 2 Timothy 1:1-14  • Luke 17:5-10 Habakkuk is one of those short…

General Introduction – The Christian Feminist Podcast – Christian Humanist Profiles – The once and future host Tradition and Roman Law – Intangible inheritances – Tradition as betrayal – To…

Among Evangelicals, John Wesley should need no introduction. A preacher, missionary, theologian,and hymn-writer, Wesley was one of those voices that shook the Enlightened eighteenth century awake, and his call for authentic faith…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 29 September 2013 (19th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 32:1-3a, 6-15 and Psalm 91:1-6, 14-16  • Amos 6:1a, 4-7 and Psalm 146  • 1 Timothy 6:6-19  • Luke 16:19-31 As I often do, I’m…

Revised Common Lectionary Page for 22 September 2013 (18th Sunday after Pentecost, Year C) Jeremiah 8:18-9:1 and Psalm 79:1-9  • Amos 8:4-7 and Psalm 113  • 1 Timothy 2:1-7  • Luke 16:1-13 Yes, it’s been a while since I wrote…

Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza Aslan 272 pp. Random House. $27.00. I’ll say this up front: New Testament Studies is a hard discipline.  Its difficulty comes…

Trinitarian Letters: Your Adoption and Inclusion in the Life of God by Paul Kurts. 232 pp. West Bow Press.  $19.99. Some books convince with well-shaped arguments, and others move the…

General Introduction – Yet more weather talk – Light and heavy episodes – Books for aspiring seminarians – Listener feedback Historical Background – The dedicatory epistle – Flattering the pope…