The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story by Diane Ackerman is the historical narrative of Christian Polish zookeepers, Jan Zabinski, a trained zoologist and the director of the Warsaw zoo,...
When Walter Brueggemann taught at Columbia Theological Seminary (1986-2003), he once gave his first year students an assignment. They were instructed to read the writings of British theologian and missiologist Lesslie Newbigin, and to write a essay where the student...
Certain writers I can only read in small doses, not because they are difficult to process but because they are so addictive that if I don’t break away from their spell I’ll start sounding like them. Scottish Jesuit priest Gerard “Gerry” William Hughes (1924-2014). His...
The Flip Side Lectionary 11 September 2016 17th Sunday After Pentecost Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 Psalm 14:1-7 I Timothy 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-10 Text to Life A busy dad came home from a harried business trip with two things: a bunch of paper work he needed to finish before...
The Samaritan Story Lectionary 11 September 2016 The Story of Joseph, Whose Sons Were Ephraim and Manasseh (Genesis 37 and 39) Jacob’s Blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh Whose Land Would Become Samaria (Genesis 48) The Assyrians Lay Siege to Samaria and Deport the...
