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The Spirit and the Bride Say, “Come”
Episode 128
On this seventh and final Sunday of the Easter season, I want to bring to a close my meditation on the extraordinary book of Revelation. With the dis…
6 years, 11 months ago
The Great Story Comes to an End
Episode 127
On this sixth Sunday of Easter, we are coming to the end of the book of Revelation, the final book of the Bible. We are approaching, in a word, the c…
6 years, 11 months ago
The New Jerusalem
Episode 126
We are coming now toward the end of the book of Revelation, which means toward the end of the entire Biblical story. Writers will often draw the begi…
7 years ago
The Imperialism of the Martyrs
Episode 125
The book of Revelation is an unveiling of a new state of affairs, the new things that are on offer in light of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. Tho…
7 years ago
Heavenly Praise
Episode 124
In today’s reading from Revelation, John is in the heavenly court and he sees angels, elders, and living creatures, countless in number, all standing…
7 years ago
Apokalypsis
Episode 123
The Church has placed the book of Revelation at the end of the Bible, as the culmination of the entire Biblical narrative—precisely because it has re…
7 years ago
Three Easter Lessons
Episode 122
The resurrection of Jesus from the dead is the foundation of the entire Christian faith. If Jesus didn’t rise from the dead, we should all go home an…
7 years ago
The Master Has Need of You
Episode 121
In our Gospel reading for the Palm Sunday procession, Jesus sends his disciples into Jerusalem to prepare for his triumphal entry. They are told to u…
7 years, 1 month ago
Misery and Mercy
Episode 120
In this week's Gospel, we hear the story of the woman caught in adultery, a tale that has beguiled Christians and non-Christians for two millennia. T…
7 years, 1 month ago
Theonomy
Episode 119
One the greatest Protestant theologians of the twentieth century, Paul Tillich, made a distinction between heteronomy (law from another), autonomy (l…
7 years, 1 month ago