Sublime

As preachers, theologians are proclaimers of the Word, the truth of Jesus Christ as the Liberator of the poor and the wretched

The central paradigm of Jewish religion is redemption. According to the Bible, the human being is created in the image of God. According to the Rabbis this means that every single person is unique and equal, endowed with the dignity of infinite value. But in history most humans have been degraded or denied their due. Judaism affirms that this condi

parental constancy is, in a sense, the paradigmatic instance of human faithfulness and commitment. In all genuine relationships meant to endure over time, faithfulness constitutes the essential baseline.

It brings us back again to the ruthlessness of the idea of sanctioned truths, exclusive ways of understanding the mystery of existence, as ordained by the officers of religious institutions. Fortunately, priests have never had it all their own way in the history of religion.

The project of feminism is, in part, a method of calling into question ‘the natural’.

Social responsibility as covenantal, peace, justice and freedom as religious ideals and personal dignity as rooted in the image of God – these are not ideas that were born fully formed from the matrix of human imagination. They have a history that began in ancient Israel,

I first observed this faith as a child in the lives of black women and men of Bearden, Arkansas. They affirmed their dignity as human beings against great odds as they held on to faith in Jesus’ cross—the belief that his suffering and death was for their salvation. For them, salvation meant that

The evidence that women served as elders is practically nonexistent and unpersuasive. For example, it is obvious in Titus 2:3 that the office of elder is not in view, for Paul refers to older men (v. 2), older women (v. 3), younger women (vv. 4–5), and younger men (v. 6). The mention of the various age groups reveals that Paul refers to age rather

One could see that the older theological notion of an inherent, innate “knowledge of God” is a theological version of a scientific proposal that human beings are, by nature, a religion-making or a god-making species.