by Mitch Randall | May 30, 2024 | Feature, Opinion
Having spent the majority of my life in Tornado Alley, the region nestled between the Northern and Southern Plains of the United States, I have had a front-row seat to the birth of supercell storms. This unique geographical location, where the frigid winds from the...
by Greg Mobley | Jul 7, 2013 | Opinion
The most common popular image of the prophet is that of the lone voice crying in the wilderness, speaking to the community on behalf of God: “Thus says the LORD.” We often miss the other side of the coin, the image of the prophet speaking to God on behalf...
by Greg Mobley | Jun 18, 2013 | Opinion
We cannot truly understand the biblical prophets without pausing to reflect on the idea of divine anger without prejudice. No matter how foreign or familiar this concept appears to contemporary readers, divine anger was a consuming reality for the biblical prophets...
by Greg Mobley | Jun 11, 2013 | Opinion
The prophetic performances of the classical Hebrew prophets have been collected in a series of scrolls. Written texts were simply the Iron Age’s version of a recording device. All manner of oral performances – stories, priestly teachings, songs, prayers,...
by Greg Mobley | Jun 3, 2013 | Opinion
Our subject is nothing less than that brilliant fusion of divination and imagination known as classical Hebrew prophecy in which a succession of folk performers over the course of two centuries (about 740-540 B.C.) turned God into a poet. What do I mean by the phrase...
