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Psalm 68 is a joyful and triumphant picture of the eschatological victory of God. The poem plays on the the theme of the “seed of the woman” that will crush the serpent in Genesis, and contains several allusions to stories in the book of Judges.
In this final installment of the “Hospitality and Revival” series, we explore why we should practice hospitality in light of “the end of all things is at hand.”
Jesus centered hospitality in both his practice and his preaching.
The act of hospitality in the life of Abraham, Lot, the widow of Zarephath, and the Shunammite woman led to resurrection and escape from wrath. Is practicing hospitality pointing to the coming kingdom of God?
We often think of hospitality as a personality trait or an individual gift—a lovely but inessential thing. But could it be that hospitality is at the core of what it means to follow Jesus?
This recent wave of antisemitism did not occur in a vacuum. There is a baseline level (unacceptable but consistent) of antisemitic rhetoric being vomited into the public square from the usual suspects all the time, but we can reasonably trace the recent flare to the comments of a certain influential American celebrity.
There have been a number of recent reports of the IRGC amassing troops on the border of Iraqi Kurdistan. After weeks of bombarding this region, it looks as though Iran might be preparing for a ground incursion against Kurdish targets.
How does modern Hebrew slang give insight into the concept of atonement?
In the mid to late aughts, I worked at a little community center and book store in the heart of Chicago’s Little India. One day, I had a visitor whose request made for a stressful workday that involved the FBI and a machine gun.
The laws pertaining to the woman suspected of adultery, the rite of the jealous husband, and what—if anything—this has to do with the dialogue surrounding the reversal of Roe v. Wade by the United States Supreme Court.