The apostle Paul is seldom as brilliantly insightful as in his description of New Creation’s community in the fourth chapter of his letter to the Ephesians. The portrait of this new humanity as a body that responds to the direction of Christ as its head is redolent with ethical implications. It is a stirring picture, [...]
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the ethics of new creation: Ephesians 4
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Ephesians, textures on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
a big secret: Ephesians 3
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Ephesians, textures on September 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
At the core of the apostle Paul’s self-understanding stands his calling to enlighten the nations regarding Yahweh’s intention to bless them. Indeed Paul seems to evoke the language of the book of Isaiah’s enigmatic ‘servant of the Lord’ when he speaks of how he invests his own life in this almost startlingly non-Jewish mission. Paul [...]
eyes in the fridge: the story of a rescued Rhodesian Ridgeback
Posted in fauna, tagged fauna, Sammy, The Story of a Rescued Rhodesian Ridgeback on September 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
At times like, this the idea of wandering down to the kitchen for a midnight snack of olives becomes a very bad idea indeed. Sammy’s eyes, you see, are in there. Tupperware never served a nobler purpose.
a most human temple: Ephesians 2
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Ephesians, textures on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The apostle Paul has few compunctions about mixing metaphors, particularly when straining for descriptors of God and his redeemed people. In the second chapter of his letter to the Ephesians, he weaves together metaphors of citizenship and temple construction. When read against the background of the Hebrew Bible, this is not an unlikely amalgamation of [...]
continuities: Galatians 6
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Galatians, textures on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A strong theology of creation permits Paul—like the recorders of the Bible’s wisdom traditions—to trace the way of things by long, thoughtful observation. Even in a letter shot through with reflection upon the spirit-flesh dichotomy, Paul is simply to describe with organic language and as both promise and warning the way things work: Do not [...]
fear itself: Galatians 5
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Galatians, textures on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For a man as determined as he is to safeguard the Christian’s freedom from any moral and legal encumbrance that does not align itself with the logic of Jesus’ cross, the apostle Paul is shockingly severe with regard to those who breach moral boundaries: I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who [...]
all in: Galatians 3
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Galatians, textures on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We have only scarce evidence regarding the shape of Paul’s personality, yet his temperament must have exuded a certain feistiness. It was doubtless an unpleasant thing to discover that one had crossed him. What looks from this distance like an irascible edginess must not be taken as a transparent defect but rather linked, at least [...]
tiquicia and how it got that way: Steven Palmer and Iván Molina (eds), The Costa Rica Reader. History, culture, politics
Posted in denkschrift, reseña, two hippos make an island, tagged Costa Rica, Latin America, travel on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rarely does an anthology of original documents of historical value mingled with insightful interpretative essays come together as a coherent work. Steven Palmer and Iván Molina, against those odds, have put the ball in the back of the net with just such a book.
tiene futuro: Kany García, Cualquier Día
Posted in reseña, tagged music, reseña on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Kany García is not one vocal artist. She is two. Cualquier Día begins on the better half of this split, artistic personality. This one, Good Kany, is sensitive, balladic, and performs at moderate-to-low volume. She is the promising Kany García, singing from the heart, not trying too hard to succeed too quickly, too early, too [...]
woman: Song of Solomon 7-8
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Song of Solomon, textures on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The poet’s description of the Shunamite beauty in Song of Solomon is breathtaking. Meticulously, he employs his craft from her head to her toe, painting a portrait of her body that sets a reader back on his heels. Your rounded thighs are like jewels, the work of a master hand. It is understandable that pious [...]
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