And his disciples came and urged him, saying, ‘Send her [the Canaanite woman] away, for she keeps shouting after us.’ (Matt 15:23) Songs for Ash Wednesday The title of this post comes from Walter Brueggemann’s influential essay ‘The Costly Loss of Lament,’ written in 1986 (repr. in Psalms and the Life of Faith). In it, Brueggemann […]
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Thorns, Sweat, and Pain in the Garden of Eden
[I recently read Iain Provan’s Seriously Dangerous Religion and Discovering Genesis, and hosted an interview with him, and wanted to share a few thoughts.] Readers of Genesis may be forgiven for assuming that the ‘curse’ in Genesis 3 introduced all forms of discomfort, pain, and trouble that exist within the created order. The woman would […]