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Blog (Page 20)

Blog (Page 20)

Holy Disruption

“We tend to think in systems and continuities and predictability and schemes and plans. I think the Bible is to some great extent focused on God’s capacity to break those schemes open and violate those formulae.”-Walter Brueggemann What in the world could make the people of Jesus’ hometown so upset that they would chase him to the edge of a cliff…

Fulfilled In Your Hearing

When words are spoken and heard, something happens. Things that may have been a distant memory, or something we read once, come to life again when we hear them proclaimed. Maybe it’s that we hear it in a new way, pick up on a new detail, or the speaker emphasizes something different from what you would have emphasized. In last Sunday’s gospel reading…