‘By his power he churned up the sea; by his wisdom he cut Rahab to pieces.’ Job 26:12.  This creation myth is a picture of bringing order out of chaos, represented here by the monster

One thing I have learned is – there are multiple realities.  You can’t know that your particular version is the correct one.  ‘’These contradictions underscore the novel’s key idea that there is no absolute perception

N.T. Wright: “The personal hope for resurrection is located within the larger hope for the renewal of all creation, for God’s new heavens and new earth. Take away the bodily resurrection, however, and what are

I was listening to an interview with Nancy Patricia Pelosi, the Minority Leader of the United States House of Representatives. I think she is accurate in saying ‘my colleagues in the Republican Party do not

Now scientists accept that Newtonian mechanics works for physical processes on a certain ‘local’ scale, but its scope is not boundless. On a very large scale, it is relativity physics that we must use, not

I was not able to enter empathetically into the spontaneity and boundary-shattering milieu of the early church, having been raised in a rationalistic, scholastic religion. I was circumscribed by deadly fears of heresy and dogmatically

I am reading Bart Ehrman book, How Jesus Became God, pretty similar material to various Marcus Borg books I have read, like ‘Jesus: Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary.’ They both

To Have and Have Not (Hemingway, Ernest) – Your Highlight on page 136 | Location 2360-2362 | Added on Tuesday, July 7, 2015 8:40:04 PM The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his

Reinventing Liberal Christianity (Hobson, Theo) – Your Highlight on page 272 | Location 4844-4848 | Added on Thursday, May 21, 2015 1:22:38 PM Instead, the religious Right was allowed to dominate the discussion — in

If we move beyond literary and form-critical distinctions, we may say that theologically Job moves to a “second naivete,” in which he denies nothing, but in the acknowledgement of his trouble, he continues in a