When I applied for my visa to work in the UK, I happened to speak with one lively consular officer working in Philadelphia. When he heard that I was moving to teach Old Testament at a theological college, he became audibly ecstatic (or agitated, I couldn’t tell which) and exclaimed: ‘The Old Testament! God of […]
The God Who ‘Sees’
Thursday the 8th of October was National Poetry Day. Poetry is like gardening for me. I always feel I should love it more than I do, but like gardening, what I really want is for someone to make it easy for me. With poetry, this means I want to hear it recited to me and […]