SWALK (2020/02/23)

SWALK (2020/02/23)

christian life, Jo Kitchen, podcast, poetry, sexuality, slavery, social justice, temple, wisdom

So many of our reading skills depend on our cultural background: the memes, metaphors, and idioms that make up our literary vernacular. This week, Jo Kitchen and I take on 1 Corinthians 6, which turns out to be particularly densely packed and full of rhetorical flair.

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Of Justice and the Conscience

Of Justice and the Conscience

christian life, gospel, podcast, politics, racial justice, reading, slavery, social justice

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

- Dr Martin Luther King, Jr (after Theodore Parker). 1964, Middletown, Connecticut.

Something a little different this week! In an essay in 1853, Theodore Parker set up ideas on social responsibility, justice, conscience, and the nature of God reflected in human beings that still resonate today. The quotation made famous by Dr King, is actually a paraphrase from this essay, in which Parker critiques both church and state to present the gospel of a human Jesus bringing good news to the rest of humanity.

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land and loyalty (2019/03/17)

land and loyalty (2019/03/17)

gospel, history, law, podcast, poetry, slavery, synoptic studies

In spite of the dreadful audio quality in this episode (sorry about that) I really got sucked into the texts this week. The release and jubilee laws in Leviticus, which are cautiously liberative, are closely connected to the land of promise itself - both textually and historically; and in the New Testament, a synoptic study of an account in Luke reveals three surprisingly different versions of an originally shocking Jesus story.

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