1 Corinthians 7

There’s a whole lotta repenting going on in these texts.

Our era’s poet theologian begins by retranslating Paul: “the remaining time is contracted” (1 Cor. 7:29).

This week’s readings challenge us to adopt a particular posture.

The new year is only a few weeks old. Like most people I have been reflecting on the past year, wondering where the time went. But even more, I have been wondering what the world has come to.

Paul isn’t asking us to avoid the world. But if the form of the world is passing away, the everyday is becoming a step into promise.

In a recent interview, Diane Keaton told the story of when she first decided to adopt a child. She was driving her father home from the hospital to die.

Jonah is prophetic minimalism gone amok.