by Colin Harris | Sep 15, 2020 | Opinion
Studies in Jeremiah have typically summarized his assessment of Judah’s waywardness from covenant faithfulness under the two sins of injustice and idolatry. He clearly joins his predecessors in calling out the patterns of social and economic life that allowed the...
by Colin Harris | Nov 4, 2019 | Opinion
“Exile” is a very negative word, conjuring up images of forced deportation and political banishment. Even in the milder forms of some traditions’ practice of “shunning” those who have misbehaved, a kind of social and psychological exile alienates one from the...
by Bert Montgomery | Sep 25, 2019 | Opinion
Stephen King’s book, “It,” is about a blood covenant, as I noted in the antecedent article. Digging deeper, we find the covenant is fueled by profound foreboding coupled with an inescapable sense of love. From cover to cover, the Bible introduces us to all kinds...
by Bert Montgomery | Sep 24, 2019 | Opinion
Stephen King is my favorite theologian. King has made a pretty good living drilling deep, deep, deep into our fears. But as any reader of his stories knows, the horror is rarely the central theme. Sure, most of the movies adapted from King’s original writings focus on...
by Colin Harris | Nov 28, 2018 | Opinion
Xenophobia (fear of the other) was selected as Dictionary.com’s “Word of the Year” in 2016. I pondered then if its being called out in that way might reduce its impact on our collective life. Alas, its effectiveness as a political tool has shown it to remain worthy of...
