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February 2023

February 03, 2023

Dangerous Thoughts: Three Parables in Dissembling Villager Speak

For some time I’ve been working with the conviction that many, if not most, of...

November 2022

November 19, 2022

Parables as Subversive Speech—the Conclusion—and a More Incarnational Jesus

In Parables as Subversive Speech William Herzog takes us back to the time and place...

November 12, 2022

A Dishonest Steward uses the Weapons of the Weak

“… and they all lived happily, for a while, after.” That’s how Jesus could have...

November 04, 2022

Unjust Judge Out-Shamed by Persistent Widow – a Parable

Jesus told a parable in which a widow crosses the boundaries of social acceptability and...

October 2022

October 28, 2022

Publican and Pharisee: A Parable of Two Public Sinners

The Parable of the Pharisee and the Publican occurs only in the Gospel of Luke....

October 18, 2022

The Horrifying – or Tragic – Parable of the Talents

I always pitied the third servant in the Parable of the Talents, the one who...

October 15, 2022

The Unmerciful Servant Parable Trashes Messianic Hopes

The crowd on Palm Sunday hailed Jesus as the new King David. Jesus twice (at...

October 11, 2022

The Rich Man and Lazarus, or an Oppressor who Won’t be Taught

In the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus, Jesus, the pedagogue of the oppressed,...

October 07, 2022

The Parable of the Wicked Tenants and the Wickeder Landlord

Sometimes in real life it’s hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys....

September 2022

September 09, 2022

William Herzog Reads Jesus’ Parables, Brings them Down to Earth

William R. Herzog II says he wrote a book about Jesus’ parables after puzzling about...

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