1 Kings

The Bible is full of strange things—oil cruets and flour containers that never become empty and young bodies that are restored to life at a word from Jesus. Are we supposed to believe that these things happened? Maybe the ancient peoples did, but we moderns suffer under the curse of Bultmann’s lightbulb: we know why the light switches on. We are cursed by rationalities that prevent us from seeing the Bible as one overarching story in which our own lives play a key role.

Here is a woman about to die with her child who still manages to love her neighbor as herself.

Here is a woman about to die with her child who still manages to love her neighbor as herself.

Here is a woman about to die with her child who still manages to love her neighbor as herself.

In the face of existential threat, God comes with the grace which is the courage to be.