There’s a story I’ve often heard told about Old Testament prophets. I don’t think it’s true, but here’s how it goes. God apparently gave Israel a sacrificial system. He asked for obedience. He asked for victims. And he asked for bloodshed. But in time, and as Israel’s knowledge of God matured, certain groups came to […]
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A Time for Minor Chords (Part III): Objections to Lament
[This is Part III of a series on lament. Part I is HERE, and Part II HERE] Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. (Jas 4:9) Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, ‘children of God without fault in a warped […]
Review of ‘Spirit Hermeneutics’ – Craig S. Keener
[This review is by Jo Soper, who teaches hermeneutics at WTC. With her husband Jon, she also leads Exeter Network Church – a Bishop’s Mission Order looking to shape itself around mission and following the Spirit without being unnecessarily weird.] Craig S. Keener’s Spirit Hermeneutics: Reading Scripture in Light of Pentecost (Eerdmans, 2016) 550 pages I am so […]
A Time for Minor Chords (Part II): Protest at the Divine Court
In my previous post I discussed the continued lack of lament in contemporary worship (of the ‘worship band’ variety). My point was that there’s been very little appreciable movement toward lament in the past decades among the major producers of the songs listed on the CCLI lists and the like. Because of that, the average […]
A Time for Minor Chords: The Costly Loss of Lament in Contemporary Worship
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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