A Text without Contexts is Dumb!
This latest one is aimed at real beginners in biblical study and addresses why multiple contexts are important for reading/hearing texts, particularly the Bible.
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Being Ideal Readers: 1 in which we discover the importance of a Psalm
In this podcast we’ll begin to grapple with a complicated idea, but quite simply begin to discover how to become (more) ideal readers. We’ll be looking at Eph 4 , and you will also need a bookmark in...
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E100-72: Acts 3:1 – 4:37: The rejected stone
Igorot Beggar photo by martiniko Peter gets some powerful lines in these two great chapters Since I was a child I’ve loved his: “I don’t have silver and gold, but what I do have I’ll give you. Get up...
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God the Midwife: a repost with new format
With mothers’ day coming up it seems a good time to reissue an old post, with a new format and somewhat cleaned up audio. I briefly remind you of some of the passages that picture God as a midwife. The...
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A Text without contexts is dumb! 2: Text without cotext is dumb
For the second part of this “A text without contexts is dumb” series we’ll think about cotext, the text that surrounds a text, providing context. The biblical examples come from Psalms and Ephesians....
View ArticleNot Only a Father: Knowing the unknowable
The final podcast in a series written as guest posts for Sacraparental that express the key ideas of Not Only a Father briefly and simply. This one explores a few ways to experience God as motherly....
View ArticleComplaint Psalms: Part One
This post starts to talk about Psalm 22, mentioning Job 10 on the way, we will examine these passages as a way into understanding “complaint psalms”. Complaints are the commonest type of psalm in the...
View ArticleComplaint Psalms: Part Two
This second look at the complaint psalms continues to focus on Psalm 22. Part three will return to Jeremiah…
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