Month: August 2020

  • We the People (American Lament)

    We the People (American Lament) Take a needle, poke a hole in the  American pipe dream, and watch it all  deflate.  We the people  never knew how to  care for ourselves, our neighbors, let alone the ones that we call strange. We grasp with cowardice  to table scraps  of life, liberty, happiness, like broken records …

  • To the people with power

    In Ephesians 6:5-9, Paul gives a series of instructions to δοῦλοι (slaves or servants―people in a position of subservience or subjection), and then to κυρίοις (masters or lords―people in a position of power).  Here is the passage in the NRSV translation: 5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, in singleness of heart,…

  • Wives and participles and Bible and I’m done defending Paul

    I thought I might write a post exploring how the original Greek of Ephesians 5:21-33 comes across a little less patriarchal―or at least a little more ambiguous in some ways―than our English translations suggest.  And there are plenty of things that could be said to this effect.  I could write about how Paul’s call to…

  • God is Calling Her Children

    God is Calling Her Children God is calling  her children to the garden, to walk through wildflowers in the place where life grows slowly and unveils itself in its own time, to let soil slip through fingers in the place where we do not need to be trailblazers, conquerors and colonizers, chairpeople and board members, but,…