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Theology and Interpretation
Nature’s Warning

I live in Indiana near Louisville, Kentucky. Since mid-March, Kentucky’s governor Andy Beshear has offered an update [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Recognize (and Protect) Everyday Miracles

How about giving up discontent for Lent? There’s a complaint [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Practicing Gratitude

Searching for Christmas gifts for the youngest members of our family, I came across a “gratitude journal,” [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Imagining Leadership

Isaiah 11 (December 8) imagines several qualities of wise leadership: wisdom and understanding, council (or strategic thinking) [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Learning to Pay Attention

This summer I taught a week-long continuing education course for pastors on scripture and ecology. [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Change Is Possible and Needed

While the opportunities Scripture offers to speak directly of the beauty, power, and needs of [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Earth Day is Easter Monday

This coming April 22, 2019, is the fiftieth year of celebrating Earth Day, which began [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Illumination, Revelation, Transformation

Since Lent does not begin until March 2019, the season [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Small Thing, Abundant Growth

One of our sons-in-law works in plant pathology. Recently he took us to visit the [...]

Theology and Interpretation
God’s Open Hand

Several weeks of Gospel texts this summer read John 6, beginning with the story of Jesus’ feeding [...]