The Desert Shall Blossom

The Desert Shall Blossom

Flourish is a rich and reassuring word. From the Latin stem florere, it relates to flowers. To flourish is to “develop in a healthy or vigorous way, especially as the result of a particularly congenial environment.” Who wouldn’t want to flourish,...
This Prophet Didn’t Mince Words with Oppressors

This Prophet Didn’t Mince Words with Oppressors

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...