… is the title of my latest, and forthcoming, book, with co-author Geoffrey Lentz. Geoffrey is associate pastor of First United Methodist Church in Pensacola, FL and has become a regular collaborator on the Participatory Study Series, whence comes the name of this blog. He also has an Energion Publications author page. Learning and Living…
It’s a great article on the Biologos Foundation’s Science and the Sacred blog.
I received a link to the following video in a tweet from @TheActiveWord. It seems so closely related to my last post that I’d include it here: There are several things I agree with here. First, I do believe that the Bible has the sovereignty of God and the responsibility (of which some sort of…
There’s one use of the phrase “just your interpretation” that implies that no interpretation is better than any other. This is often used by people who have no idea how a particular text should be interpreted, but nonetheless feel like rejecting your interpretation in particular. Either they think all interpretations are equal–a common idea these…
I previously answered this question for myself here, but there’s a good and gracious answer today from Brian Fulthorp. I would repeatedly emphasize that there are many advantages to knowing Biblical languages. There are some areas and methods of study that really are closed to you if you don’t know the languages. Having said that,…
From Samuel E Balentine, commenting on the tamid in Leviticus 6:13 and elsewhere in Leviticus (Interpretation, a Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching), p 65: … All religious rituals are more than practical or even symbolic acts, as important as these may be. At their core, rituals are a form of liturgical exegesis that engages…
There are generally two reactions I hear to this in Sunday School classes and church pews–it’s either fascination, as if the genealogies make or break the Bible or complete indifference, as in “who cares?” Both reactions miss the point. Matthew and Luke are each making a point, and they are making it in a way…
With a recent flurry of posts regarding the way in which the Old Testament is used in the New, at least peripherally, I wanted to call attention to one written from a different perspective. The post is Isaiah 7, Nativity, and the Theotokos, written by Mark Olson, who speaks from an Orthodox perspective. He discusses…
John Cassian was a monk and ascetic writer from Gaul and lived in the late 4th and early 5th centuries AD [source]. I found this in Hebrews: Ancient Christian commentary on Scripture, New Testament X, though I went to the Order of Saint Benedict Lectio site for the translation I use here: YOU must then,…
… at Clayboy. On the topic of the size of this carnival, allow me to give an opinion. I’m not in the current carnival. I didn’t nominate any of my posts, and not surprisingly nobody else did either. This is a good approach, I think. Use only the nominations as those of us involved in…
