Theology and Interpretation
Now It’s Up to Us
The future of environmental well-being seemed hopeful last year to many in faith communities, with the publication [...]
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Theology and Interpretation
Isaiah’s Earthly Hopes
One liturgical year ends soon and the next will immediately begin. The lectionary’s seasonal turning from Christ’s [...]
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Truthtelling in Watershed Moments
The words “crisis,” “unprecedented,” and “chaos” seem to be appearing [...]
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Equatorial Creation Care
I spent a week last month in Kisumu, Kenya, seven miles south of the equator on Lake [...]
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Light Shines in Darkness, and on Rooftops
Recent events in Paris stand out as a microcosm of [...]
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All Flesh Shall See Salvation
Perhaps in past eras it did humans good to lift their eyes beyond the turmoil [...]
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Fertility under Threat
Fertility of both soil and womb concerned many biblical writers in an era of threat by drought [...]
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Scriptural Wisdom Makes Ecological Sense
Wisdom rules the September lectionary. Several weeks of Proverbs and [...]
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Bread from Heaven
Food fills the menu in August’s lectionary. Four weeks of Gospel readings explore John 6’s discussions between [...]
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Pope Francis on Humans, Nature, and Power
Pope Francis’s much anticipated encyclical entitled “Praised Be: On the [...]