Zoom Sign-on Click Here Class Schedule Date Topic Leader Location Zoom Sign on Handouts 16-Feb-25 Creation in the Plagues Doug Church Parlor Click here Video of Class Creation in Exodus The Character of Creation Creation and Judgment 23-Feb-25 Eric Church Parlor Click here 2-Mar-25 No Class 9-Mar-25 Eric …
This essay is a re-statement of H.H. Schmid’s essay on “Creation, Righteousness, and Salvation” in Bernhard Anderson’s, Creation in the Old Testament.
Why aren’t people more frightened by climate change? Why is humanity so slow in taking steps to avert a coming catastrophe? One explanation is the idea that climate change is too big for our brains to hold. Humans have never faced an overheated world. We see a Garter Snake in the flower bed, and we …
This is a review of Rabbi Shaul Magid’s book, The Necessity of Exile. Magid has written a deeply revealing book on the situation in Israel and Americans concerned about Christian Nationalism in this country will benefit from his insights.
I’d describe Marvin Dunn’s A History of Florida Through Black Eyes as two books comingled. The first book is history and sets up the reading of the second, which is the author’s personal memoir. In the memoir section are three chapters on lynching, a historical phenomenon that Dunn sees as unfinished business that he aims …
Bible readers are usually alarmed when they discover that stories like the Great Flood and creation from chaos were commonplace in the ancient Middle East. This post suggests that Bible students simply read ancient mythology that has influenced the development of the Old Testament. To do this is to discover that mythological materials have been profoundly reworked by biblical editors and pose no threat to faith.
