Category Archives: Bible-Theology

Update: Candidacies, Proposals, Teachings

This will be quite a quarter of instruction. Continue reading

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Romans 15: “I Have a Dream”

A sermon at Preakness Valley United Reformed Church in Wayne, NJ, on April 22, 2012. Continue reading

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Lamentations and the Holocaust

Sometimes the suffering soul needs to be given a voice rather than chicken soup…. Continue reading

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Review: “Lamentations and the Tears of the World”

O’Connor’s purpose is to recommend Lamentations as an instrument of personal and communal healing… Continue reading

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Rent Garments

When was the last time I “rent my garments” in repentance for my sins? Continue reading

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Lamentations 1-2: Look, YHWH, and See!

A sermon at Lansdale Presbyterian Church… Continue reading

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Hanukkah for Christians?

I’m going out a limb to say that Christians can celebrate Hanukkah, too… Continue reading

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Article in PBU Today; Dr. Sam Hsu

As the PBU family–all of us Dr. Hsu’s children in some sense–mourns his death, we look with pain and expectation to the resurrection. Between now and then, we will miss him, and many others whom we have lost and will yet lose. Yet YHWH loses none who call upon him. He sees the suffering of his children, and hears the groaning of the broken world that he created good–and he grieves with us. Continue reading

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Lamentations Presentation at Agora Conference

My presentation for PBU’s Agora Conference last Saturday, “‘Unless You Have Utterly Rejected Us’: Lamentations as an Instrument of Community Renewal,” is now posted… Continue reading

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Meyer on the Soteriological Character of Israel’s Election

“Israel, in short, understood salvation in ecclesial terms…” Continue reading

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