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...
Collateral discovery

Collateral discovery

Can militants associated with the so-called Islamic State be given credit for anything good? Not one thing, most of us would say. Still, their misguided and destructive campaign to blot out priceless monuments from antiquity because they were associated with the...

The Pouting Prophet

A sermon delivered by Randy Hyde, Pastor, Pulaski Heights Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark., September 18, 2011.        Jonah 3:10-4:11; Philippians 1:21-30 What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the name Jonah? You think of a whale. Am I not right?...