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Figural Graffiti

Joseph Mangina -
With apologies to W.H. Auden  Everything within creation Speaks of Jesus’ Incarnation. Likewise too, his saving Passion Is shown forth in all that’s fashioned. The Word God spoke before...
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Can It Be Forgotten?

David Mason Barr -
In my second year of graduate school, I had the opportunity to take a course called “What Is Scripture?” with the prominent Jewish philosopher...
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Lisboa: A Figural Reading for a Crippled Church

Trent Pettit -
Slaves were brought from Africa to work in mines soon after gold was discovered in the backlands of Brazil. The discovery of gold made...
Books & Culture

This Also Is Thou: Neither Is This Thou

Guest Contributor -
By William N. McKeachie The most esoteric of the Inklings, Charles Williams, used the adage serving as the title of this essay as the epigraph...
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Figurative Interpretation, Literal Fear

Tom Smith -
I have never been better served in my life than when I have had to confront something difficult. We want truth but we dislike pain....
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The Eucharist and Revulsion

Jeff Boldt -
By Jeff Boldt The pandemic changed all our Sunday habits. If you don't have four little kids, streaming a service could be a viable...
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Jesus Christ in the Old Testament

Jeff Boldt -
By Jeff Boldt Between Easter and the Ascension the risen Lord appeared to two disciples on the road to Emmaus. Famously, they didn't recognize Jesus,...
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The Seedbed of Christian Biblical Interpretation

Paul Wheatley -
The Commentary of Origen on the Gospel of St Matthew. By Ronald E. Heine First edition. 2 vols. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018,...
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The Holy One Called Home

Guest Contributor -
By Ian Olson The season of Epiphany is another phase of the time between the times, inviting the church to remember the revealing of the...
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Confronted by the Word

Jonathan Turtle -
It is undoubtedly the case that exposure to the Bible — hearing it, reading it, praying it, meditating upon it — is central to...
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