by James Gordon | Jul 19, 2021 | Opinion
Reading the text of the prophet Nahum is an exercise in theology in the service of imagination, and imagination in the service of theology. Yes, it is a “text of terror,” a tour de force description of the defeat, fall and ultimate humiliation of Nineveh, the greatest...
by James Gordon | Jan 28, 2021 | Opinion
There’s a lot of sobering news around. I could make a list for you to read, but you’re ahead of me. You know as well as I do that watching the news online, on TV or in the papers is an exercise in discouragement and sadness. The psalmists, good poets that they were,...
by James Gordon | Oct 27, 2020 | Opinion
We’ve all had to find our own ways of coping with a restricted way of life while we co-exist with COVID-19. Apparently, lots of folk have been tuning in to Bob Ross, the American painter, instructor and television host on his own program, The Joy of Painting. It helps...
by James Gordon | Mar 3, 2020 | Opinion
One of the up-and-coming New Testament scholars in the United States was asked in a Facebook profile to name the most influential mentor or teacher he encountered. The name he gave was Luke Timothy Johnson, one of the more prolific scholars on early Christianity. One...
by James Gordon | Dec 16, 2019 | Opinion
I first came across the name Abraham Joshua Heschel while reading early books by Walter Brueggemann. It was Heschel’s work on the prophets he cited. It’s a remarkable exposition of the Hebrew mind in prophetic mode, when the world is looked at with God on the horizon,...
