Even among a people less awkward about the unseen than we, the sick woman of Luke must have been shattered by the sudden strangeness of events. Grasping at Jesus as he passed by, she made meaningful contact and felt her long-standing illness reshaped into wholeness as she did so. She came up behind him and [...]
Archive for March, 2008
almost magic: Luke 8
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Luke, textures on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
women warriors: Judges 4-5
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Judges, textures on March 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An odd incongruity flavors the pages of the Book of Judges. Amid the stories of Israel’s vicious cycle of declension and the heroic feats of warrior ‘judges’, there is little exemplary behavior that aligns itself with the ethical counsel of the Hebrew Bible. Far more chaos appears than order, more idiosyncratic episodes than steady walking [...]
the Robins return
Posted in fauna, my hometown, tagged birding, fauna on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the lingering twilight of Springtime in Indianapolis, I notice that the Robins have returned. One young fellow told me so by crashing into the window of a basement entry, then fussing about how clumsy that must have looked and flying off. Another, a large one in dire need of a haircut, perched just now [...]
a little love: Luke 7
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Luke, textures on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While at table in the home of a certain Simon—one must not fall prey to the pious instinct to hold it against this host that he is a Pharisee—Jesus’ conviviality with the assembled men is interrupted when a ‘sinnner woman’ falls at his feet. She anoints them with a bottle made for the job but [...]
coming and going: Joshua 23-24
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Joshua, textures on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just as the book of Joshua begins with a renewal of the covenant that binds Israel to Yahweh and his chosen leader, so it ends. Joshua received the baton from the hand of Israel’s aged lawgiver Moses. He now prepares to hand it on to those largely unnamed Israelite leaders who will carry it forward. [...]
the difference a river makes: Joshua 20-22
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Joshua, textures on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Book of Joshua leaves traces of a prejudice that was to die hard in Israel. When two and a half of the dozen tribes that populate this narrative of Israel’s entrance into the ‘promised land’ lay claim to an inheritance on the east side of the Jordan River, a breach is opened up between [...]
the best for last?: Mozart, The Last Five Symphonies (Philips Duo)
Posted in reseña, tagged Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Mozart, music, Neville Mariner, reseña on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One grows accustomed to approaching the `last’ works of an artist with an aging master in mind, perhaps resting just a bit on laurels accrued over a lifetime of meritorious productivity. Not so with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of those giants who was taken early from his craft. Perhaps, from an aesthetic point of view, [...]
now, and then: Luke 6
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Luke, textures on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One thinks of the crowds thronging to Jesus because of his more dramatic performances, say, the noisy exorcisms and the healing of lingering diseases. Yet when Luke summarizes Jesus’ labors, he begins his abbreviation of the crowds’ vigor by referring to what they heard Jesus say: He came down with them and stood on a [...]
no destination: Luke 9
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Luke, textures on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The careful observer of life’s nuts and bolts soon learns that he can put up with almost anything for a little while. When you can glimpse the end of pain, you become almost invincible. So it might have seemed entirely plausible to the young enthusiasts who gathered admiringly around Jesus that they should accompany him [...]
Gideon’s mixed message (Judges 8-10)
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Judges, textures on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Gideon, a.k.a. Jerubaal, talks the anti-monarchic line that customarily went down well with the ancient Israelite traditions of the desert. The anti-monarchist tradition that shows its face regularly in the biblical texts finds it convenient when a heroic figure like Gideon rises up, achieves the military liberation for which the people clamor, then disappears into [...]
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