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Faith • Theological Reflections

The Promise and Perils of Faith, Vocation, and Culture: Part I – The Danger of Nationalism

Dr. Bruce Lowe | 7 min read

Why do the Old Testament Scholars Get All the Fun? This may sound like a strange thing to say, but I’m jealous of those who get to teach the Old Testament. I get paid to teach the New Testament, which I love doing, but I’m envious of those teaching the Old. Why? When it comes...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

A Poet’s response to a Prophet

Alexis Stanford | 3 min read

A Reflection on Jeremiah 29… At first, when I read this passage, I thought I would attempt to write a thorough essay explaining how I, as an African American women, a product of a divorced parent, in one of the largest urban centers in the United States, feel both daily and keenly as if I...

Faith • Biblical Reflections

The Beauty in Waiting

John Massie | 3 min read

Mikel Bulgakov’s Russian masterpiece “Master and Margarita” follows the Devil, Woland, and his minions as they descend upon Moscow to terrorize, destroy, and uproot society. However, despite his unsettling violence, Woland ultimately serves as a force of good and truth for the Russian people. Bulgakov uses Woland to uproot truths about the corrupt, oppressive reality...

Faith • Theological Reflections

On Faith

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

“Do you have faith?” We were sitting in a cafe for lunch today, talking about the world and our place in it. A generation apart, she came to Washington a few years ago, and works on international human rights questions, hard questions that they are. This question mattered to her too. I looked back across...

Culture • Christianity & Culture

The Culture is Upstream from Politics, Again

Dr. Steven Garber | 3 min read

When I was a boy, my grandfather and I spent summers buying cattle throughout Colorado. Mostly of course, he was the buyer, but there were moments when, with a certain twinkle in his eye, he would let me be the bidder, nudging me to know when to move my hand so that the auctioneer knew...

Vocation • On Daily Work

Missio on Gen. 13: Erleichda

P. Alan Major | 2 min read

Erleichda. It translates as “Lighten up.” Of course, it’s actually a made-up word, from a fictional language, which only exists in the world of Tom Robbins’ Jitterbug Perfume. I’ve never read Jitterbug Perfume. But my mother had. And for some reason, that pretend word resounded with her. And for some reason, that pretend word came...

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