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,...
by James Gordon | Jul 29, 2019 | Opinion
Standing in the grass lane between two high hedges. On the right, and on the other side of the hedge, the 18th century rose garden. On the left, and over the hedge, is the 17th century rose garden. Between them, this motorway of manicured grass, and at the...
