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It so happens that I’m speaking at Pepperdine, and the fires of Malibu began just below the school on the other side of the Pacific Coast Highway, and within minutes had engulfed too several homes in the fires. As many know, the fires in California are tragic and the Santa Ana winds fan the flames…

The psalmist depicts himself like a parched wineskin being dried out in a smoker. What are his problems? People. Notice these:

If you are interested in justice, if you are interested in the struggle for justice, and if you need a shot in the arm to bolster your courage to fight through the mundane and the red-tape, then I’ve got a book suggestion for you:Â Wangari Maathai, Unbowed:Â A Memoir (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006).

Just before our New Year’s party in Ixtapa, I checked the water jugs to see if Jesus had been here!

The psalmist is parched and his only hope is moisture if the skin is to survive. How does he cope? What can he do? Notice these words:

The psalmist is parched and his only hope is moisture if the skin is to survive. How does he cope? What can he do? Notice these words:

The singular question for women in ministry is this: At its simplest it is this: Are there transcultural elements in the Bible? Are some elements “cultural”? And how do we do know the difference? William Webb, in his book Slaves, Women and Homosexuals, contends there is a redemptive trend that begins in the Bible and…

When the leaders of what is now called Emergent landed on the term “conversation” to describe itself, they landed on a loaded term. Why? Because “conversation” has a noble history and because not all Christians know how to “converse.” They know how to argue and denounce and affirm and confess and assert, but the art…

It might not be our image today, but it was the psalmist’s image: “I am like a wineskin in the smoke” (119:83). Or as the JPS translator has it: “Though I have become like a water-skin dried in smoke.” What does this image evoke, for it is from this point that this section (koph) of…

Epiphany: Father in heaven, who at the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan proclaimed him your beloved Son and anointed him with the Holy Spirit: Grant that all who are baptized into His Name may keep the covenant they have made, and boldly confess him as Lord and Savior; who with you and the…
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