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Esther & Compromise?
Read more: Esther & Compromise?[Update (2/14/2014)—My new book Esther and Her Elusive God: How A Secular Story Functions As Scripture is now available. My posts on this site represent stages in the development of my thinking about Esther. For the full argument check out the book]. Last week I wrote briefly about whether Esther belongs in the canon of Christian scripture….
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Joining in the Dance of the Merrymakers: A Meditation on Jeremiah 31
Read more: Joining in the Dance of the Merrymakers: A Meditation on Jeremiah 31Over the past month or so, I have been making my way through the book of Jeremiah. Sometimes I read through a number of chapters and at other times, something sticks with me from the text and I can’t get past a few verses. This happened about a week and a half ago as I…