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The Courage to Stand for Principle
Bravo to Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana for vetoing a gestational surrogacy bill passed by the state…
First Links — 6.3.14
Why This Rabbi Is Swearing Off Kosher Meat Shmuly Yanklowitz, Wall Street Journal The Road to the…
Cyrus the Anointed
In a comment on the description of Cyrus as a “shepherd” in Isaiah 44:24-45-7, John Goldingay (The…
Sacramental Rhetoric
In her study of Eucharist and the Poetic Imagination in Early Modern England, Sophie Read observes that since…
Jesus + Religion
Jesus>Religion: Why He is So Much Better than Trying Harder, Doing More and Being Good Enough. …
Kings and Priests
Uche Anizor writes to thank me for my review of his recent Kings and Priests, and to correct some misstatements.…
Theology in Public
Sam Wells ends his appreciative Christian Century review of Rowan Williams’s Faith in the Public Square with this…
Pastoral Focus
Christopher Beeley’s Leading God’s People is a pastoral guide drawn whose wisdom is drawn from the great pastoral…
First Links — 6.2.14
Reparations, Colonialism, and How to Engage an Argument Catherine Addington, The American Conservative Muriel Spark: the author…
Sacrifice and imitatio Dei
David Janzen (Social Meanings of Sacrifice) follows other scholars in bringing attention to “the relation between sacrifice…
Salvation and Mission
In a recent issue of Review of Biblical Literature, Lars Kierspel offers this commend on Pentecostal theologian…
Noahroma
After the flood, Noah builds an altar (mizbeach) offers ascension offerings (ya’al ‘oloth). It’s the first altar…
How Sacrifices Stack Up
Leviticus 1:7-9 describes the arrangement of animal parts for an ‘olah, an “ascension” offering. It’s a double or…
Fat
The peace offering is the one offering that a worshiper eats from. It is the offering of…
Inner man, Inner sanctuary
Mary Douglas (Leviticus as Literature) explains the connections between the qereb, the inner parts of the animal,…
