Apr 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
There’s some debate on whether Judas took and ate the bread and wine Jesus offered. Whether he partook of the sacraments, I don’t know, and I don’t know if we can know. But here’s what every translation of John 13:30 says in some form: he left with the bread.It seems...
Apr 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
“Everything is Connected”: Seven StopsSSU Convocation Address April 17, 2021Lois P. Mitchell, PhD Friends and especially graduates… It’s really a privilege to be invited to speak this morning. But of course, it’s also a challenge. What to say? Where to start,...
Apr 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
I don't enter into my comments as a learned biblical scholar or trained theologian. I am neither of those, but I was struck by the exegesis of Rabbi Sharon Brous as she spoke of the plagues (Exodus 9) in a way I'd never heard before. Rabbi Brous says...
Apr 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt. Foreword by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Plough Publishing House, 2015. Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842–1919) was born in Möttlingen, Germany, at the very time his father, Johann Christoph Blumhardt, was engaged in the amazing...
Apr 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’ve long had a collection of psalms I refer to as “My Psalter.” These are the psalms that have become extra special to me, that I have lived into deeply, meditating on them “day and night.” The Book of Psalms is my favorite in the Bible and I regularly pray through...
Apr 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
“There is perhaps no greater tragic irony than the scene that was surely played out at numerous black lynchings when both the lynchers and the lynched ostensibly cried out to the same God, the God of Jesus Christ.” Introduction In her book The Very Good Gospel,...
