TO THE PARABLES OF JESUS
Now live on Amazon.
Reading the Bible inside a Jeepney: Celebrating Colonized and Occupied Peoples' capacity to beat swords into ploughshares; to transform weapons of mass destruction into instruments of mass celebration; mortar shells into church bells, teargas canisters to flowerpots; rifle barrels into flutes; U.S. Military Army Jeeps into Filipino Mass Transport Jeepneys.
Thursday, February 06, 2025
Wednesday, February 05, 2025
IN MEMORY OF ONESIMUS
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IN MEMORY OF ONESIMUS:
Reading Philemon inside a Jeepney
Reading Philemon inside a Jeepney involves privileging Onesimus. Not Paul. Nor Philemon. Paul describes Onesimus as useless in the epistle. But “useless” is a relative term. The tens of thousands of rusted military jeeps the US Army thought useless at the end of World War II in the Philippines, Filipinos found useful as raw materials for what was to become the most popular mode of mass transportation in the islands, the jeepney...
Monday, February 03, 2025
CELEBRATING THE BIBLE, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
How Many Squares Do You See? https://a.co/d/iwqqRqu
The Shortest Short Introduction to the Bible https://a.co/d/1NJEoYO
The Shortest Short Introduction to Biblical Interpretation https://a.co/d/0zvhFB2
The Shortest Short Introduction to the New Testament https://a.co/d/5VOiiw6
The Shortest Short Introduction to the Hebrew Bible https://a.co/d/7F6CRi0
Sunday, February 02, 2025
Saturday, February 01, 2025
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
The "How Many Squares Do You See?" Books are designed to teach young people about the Bible, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Trump and his ilk will definitely NOT read these books. They'd probably find the books "nasty" for "promoting the woke DEI agenda threatening America!"
So, why not get them while you still can?
How Many Squares Do You See? https://a.co/d/iwqqRqu
The Shortest Short Introduction to the Bible https://a.co/d/1NJEoYO
The Shortest Short Introduction to Biblical Interpretation https://a.co/d/0zvhFB2
The Shortest Short Introduction to the New Testament https://a.co/d/5VOiiw6
Friday, January 31, 2025
Thursday, January 30, 2025
HOMECOMINGS
We touch. We hug. We play. We talk. We sing. We dance. We eat. We do all this and more--together. This is the homecoming, the reunion most of us picture.
But Sunday's Lukan lection on Jesus's homecoming paints a different picture. In Luke's version of Jesus's return to Nazareth, his townmates tried to throw him off a cliff. They found his interpretation of good news to the poor offensive because for Jesus, the poor whom God cared for included those who were not Israelites nor Judahites.
To this day, the bastard from Nazareth who lived his life with and for those whose only hope was God, who challenged the rich to sell everything they have and give the proceeds to the destitute, who defied empire and its life-negating systems, and who commanded everyone who followed him to offer one's life for a friend, remains a very hard sell.
Trump and his ilk will have major problems with this Nazarene troublemaker and his gospel.
*art. "Brow of the Hill near Nazareth" by James Tissot (1836-1902), available at the Vanderbilt Divinity Library digital archives.
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