Reading the Bible with Love Sechrest
In Race and Rhyme, associative hermeneutics finds its roots in deep, communal, and highly developed wisdom.
Framing ethnicity (Acts 2:1-21)
Luke slows down to elaborate the diversity of the crowd—simply for the pleasure of it.
Patching up the text (Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21)
The reading from Revelation skips over lines that will likely put off many hearers.
A grand vision for a crumbling world (Ephesians 1:15-23)
Christ has brought the entire cosmos into submission? Frankly, it doesn’t look that way.
Dethroning the canonical Paul
Cavan Concannon believes that the apostle’s writings belong in the latrine.
June 5, Pentecost C (John 14:8-17, 25-27)
The Spirit-driven tendency to undermine barriers goes all the way back to Peter and Paul.
May 29, Easter 7C (Acts 16:16-34; John 17:20-26)
I want to know why grace was extended to the Philippian jailer but not the slave.
May 26, Ascension (Luke 24:44-53)
Like the disciples at the ascension, we need a little help with interpretation.
Prominent evangelical scholars are, once again, disavowing Trump
They’re brave to do so. Do they go far enough?
Interpreting Jesus’ healings as a conflict with purity laws is dead wrong
Jesus’ conflict, Matthew Thiessen argues, was with the forces of death.
Made right (11 A; Romans 5:1-8)
I fear we may reject the justification metaphor too quickly and understand it too shallowly.
Wondering the Trinity (Genesis 1:1-2:4a)
Let’s not pretend that God hid secret Jesus messages in the Hebrew Bible like Easter eggs.
June 14, Ordinary 11 (Genesis 18:1–15, 21:1–7)
Sarah wasn’t the first member of her household to laugh at God.
June 7, Trinity Sunday (Genesis 1:1–2:4a; Psalm 8; Matthew 28:16–20)
When we read scripture backward
Does Matthew correct Mark’s story? Or complete it?
Matthew D. C. Larsen challenges long-held assumptions about the Gospels.
Communing with the saints
At mass with my friend, I received grace through hospitality—without receiving bread and wine.