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January 2007

January 15, 2007

A Note on Priestly Status for MLK Day

One of the most powerful scenes in Revelation is the moment when the Lamb takes...

January 11, 2007

Natural Law?

If you haven't noticed yet, we're not big on modernist notions of truth around here....

January 10, 2007

The Sin Against the Spirit in Mark 3

This bit of light writing was composed in response to an email from a friend....

December 2006

December 20, 2006

The Adulterous Woman, Part 3: Textual Criticism and Narrative Theory

For those who are joining our programming in medias res, this series is looking at...

December 10, 2006

Believing Blood: Mormonism as a New Race

Mormons adopted the language of race and ethnicity to describe themselves from the very early...

November 2006

November 27, 2006

The Adulterous Woman, Part 2: Suspense, Surprise, Primacy and Recency

About a year ago I was teaching Genesis 4 in a GD class that included...

November 26, 2006

Middle Ground or No-man’s Land?

I know that I've promised to do a post on predestination and the vessels of...

November 23, 2006

The Adulterous Woman, Part 1: The Narrator

A couple of weeks ago there was a partial reading of the story of the...

November 14, 2006

Good and Evil

Today I had a thought about the problem of evil that I wanted to run...

November 06, 2006

Petitionary Prayer

It is a common introductory problem in theology to think about the purpose of petitionary...

November 02, 2006

The Waters of Judah

Last evening HP called my attention to a recent post on M*. I think I’d...

October 2006

October 27, 2006

Mormonism is a Humanism

Readers may recognize that this title riffs off of Jean-Paul Sartre's influential essay "Existentialism is...

October 19, 2006

The Wisdom of Hannah

So... I wrote this for a ward RS board meeting, just after finishing my third...

October 19, 2006

The Demonic Holy Ghost

When did the Holy Ghost become a demon (aka, daimon, daemon)? By "demon" I don't...

October 18, 2006

The Power of Symbols

A few recent posts in various blogs has got my thinking about symbols. Wade at...

October 14, 2006

A Resurrection of Flesh and Bone?

In 1 Cor 15, Paul declares that "flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of...

September 2006

September 26, 2006

The Death of Jesus in Mark IV

And so we come to the last of my little four part series. If you've...

September 25, 2006

The Death of Jesus in Mark III

Hello everyone! I had a good weekend but now, as usual, I need a rest....

September 22, 2006

The Death of Jesus in Mark II

Just in case you have wandered in accidently, this is the second of a series...

September 21, 2006

The Death of Jesus in Mark I

Some years ago, when I was a sweet, young Mogget, I thought to participate in...

September 04, 2006

The Armor of God

We pause for a brief NT interlude...mostly because I had to speak at a fireside...

August 2006

August 30, 2006

The God From Within the Whirlwind: Job VI

The Book of Job closes as it opened, with two speeches by Yahweh. In his...

August 24, 2006

The Text of Job 38:1-42:6

Here's Norm Habel's translation of the text of the speeches from the whirlwind. You'll see...

August 23, 2006

The God of Elihu: Job V

Let’s cut to the chase. Here’s what Elihu thinks about God: Therefore hear me, intelligent...

August 18, 2006

The God of Job: Job IV

The thing to understand about Job is that he, like his three friends, assumes that...

August 17, 2006

The God of the Friends: Job III

Things change dramatically at the conclusion of the prologue. God, the Satan, and Job’s wife...

August 14, 2006

The God of the Prologue: Job II

The first two chapters of Job, called the prologue, are quite shocking for modern Christian...

August 09, 2006

The Gods of Job

Job’s got some real problems. The book I mean, not the guy. He has problems,...

August 02, 2006

The Effects of the Christ-Event: Redemption and Forgiveness

After reading Don Clifton’s short post on forgiveness over at Nine Moons, I spent the...

August 01, 2006

A Tale of Two Feminists

The Book of Revelation features four female figures: Jezebel (2:20), the Cosmic Woman (12:1-5, 13-17),...

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