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HE REALITY Of multiple canons and fragmentary textual-versions of the Bible highlights the multivalent possibilities of Text. The church of history is filled with many textual “truths”. It can be a downer if one is a text-only fundamentalist. One wants to see “one truth” that one can follow, instead one is made to see that [...]

Job 23:1-9, 16-17 Psalm 22:1-15 Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 Psalm 90:12-17 Hebrews 4:12-16 Mark 10:17-31 Year B Proper 23 (28), RCL Indeed, the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword… What is the Bible? What is the Word of God? Usually, the only time I hear this verse quoted in sermons [...]

TTENTION Churc Geeks, Biblical linguists and theologians: For some time now I’ve been wrestling with the Biblical images of Soma and Zoe: both translated “life” in our Bibles. We humans have, in common with all plants and animals on this orb, Soma, that is, “life”. God, however, has “Zoe”. When one is born, he has [...]

Christ is Risen! And they went out and fled from the tomb; for trembling and astonishment had come upon them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. HIS IS THE Third Sunday of Pacha, and, in the Eastern Rite, it is the Sunday of the Myrrh-Bearing Women. At least for the Gospel, [...]

Christ is Risen! OPE Benedict 16, when he sways into modern morals and politics, is a bit of a nutter, but on the Church’s tradition he is perfectly patristic and a blessing. The most common problem shared by Biblical critics (left, right, progressive theist or atheist) is that they refuse to admit or accept that [...]

Christ is Risen! ATHER MATTHEW style works really well in discussing Biblical Inerrancy. It also works well in discussing the idea of Ecclesial Infallibility. The difference between Biblical Inerrancy and Ecclesial Infallibility is a shell game, however. Those who believe in Infallibility can’t be called out: because something that is fallible, they will simply say, [...]

And the people of Nineveh believed God; they proclaimed a fast, and everyone, great and small, put on sackcloth. When God saw what they did, how they turned from their evil ways, God changed his mind about the calamity that he had said he would bring upon them; and he did not do it. IBLICAL [...]

VER ON Pomomusings, Adam has been reviewing Jesus, the Bible & Homosexuality, by Jack Rogers and in his post on Chapter 4, Adam has summarised a list of guidelines for reading scripture. Guideline 2 says: Let the focus be on the plain text of Scripture, to the grammatical and historical context, rather than to allegory [...]

F YOU DO not listen to CBC Radio’s Tapestry, why not? You would have heard Mary Hynes’ fascinating discussion with Karen Armstrong about the Bible. Karen’s new book, The Bible: A Biography, sounds like a proper antidote to fundamentlist readings (left and right) of sacred text. IN fact, she goes so far as to indicate [...]

ISHOP ALAN Reminds us that God throws his shoe over Edom and that, yes, this is an expression of contempt. I well remember the campy Anglo-Catholic Priest, pardon the tautology, who giggled before Morning Prayer and said, “Over Edom she casts her pump.” THe Bible lives today in Modern Iraq! If you want to likewise [...]