Thanks Eric. Very nice and illuminating analogy. I don’t think journalists are unethical when they try to provide coherence, but their attempts at coherence are inherently biased. You always take special care to discuss bias in Biblical interpretation, which I so appreciate. I wish more journalists followed your example.
Truly… so much help for a new pastor muddling through a bit and hoping to make sense of some bizarre texts!!! This new path is made smoother and more meaningful because I get to read your weekly comment on the lectionary… last week I took Mz Wisdom to a place of Lectio Divina to let people make their own meaning through teaching the parts of LD… this coming week will be a tribute to my mum as it would be her 82nd birthday and our sheep raising days followed by fellowship and Shepherd’s Pie…
This week’s essay to correlate current events and biblical text really gives words to my own opinion… now that I have a lectionary experience on a weekly basis and not just as a theoretical future, I’m working hard to make sense of it, always. It’s a weeklong prayer in scripture. And sometimes the prayer is, “Dear God, what in the hell do I do with this?”
So far, it’s coming along pretty well. The process is to read the upcoming lectionary on Sunday afternoon and your Substack ASAP on Monday morning. Sometimes it spawns another connection that completely different and sometimes I follow your lead and then some…
Either way, A Lover’s Quarrel gives me a brilliant step in Lectio Divina that not even John Wesley could have imagined! Thanks for doing it! Thanks for sharing your insight, like Mz Wisdom asked folks to do:)
Why was Solomon referring to Wisdom as a woman preparing for serving the misfits of the community? I am grateful for the outliers!
Thanks Eric. Very nice and illuminating analogy. I don’t think journalists are unethical when they try to provide coherence, but their attempts at coherence are inherently biased. You always take special care to discuss bias in Biblical interpretation, which I so appreciate. I wish more journalists followed your example.
Truly… so much help for a new pastor muddling through a bit and hoping to make sense of some bizarre texts!!! This new path is made smoother and more meaningful because I get to read your weekly comment on the lectionary… last week I took Mz Wisdom to a place of Lectio Divina to let people make their own meaning through teaching the parts of LD… this coming week will be a tribute to my mum as it would be her 82nd birthday and our sheep raising days followed by fellowship and Shepherd’s Pie…
This week’s essay to correlate current events and biblical text really gives words to my own opinion… now that I have a lectionary experience on a weekly basis and not just as a theoretical future, I’m working hard to make sense of it, always. It’s a weeklong prayer in scripture. And sometimes the prayer is, “Dear God, what in the hell do I do with this?”
So far, it’s coming along pretty well. The process is to read the upcoming lectionary on Sunday afternoon and your Substack ASAP on Monday morning. Sometimes it spawns another connection that completely different and sometimes I follow your lead and then some…
Either way, A Lover’s Quarrel gives me a brilliant step in Lectio Divina that not even John Wesley could have imagined! Thanks for doing it! Thanks for sharing your insight, like Mz Wisdom asked folks to do:)
Why was Solomon referring to Wisdom as a woman preparing for serving the misfits of the community? I am grateful for the outliers!
Have a Nizhoni Day! Peace🙏🏼