Bible
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Before the Throne
Lately I’ve been struggling with discouragement as a mother. My girls are wonderful, such gifted and beautiful little girls. They (like my husband) challenge me to come out of myself and engage more…
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How Long, Lord?
I’ve been reading through — or more like plodding through — my Bible since last year some time. Isaiah is as far as I’ve gotten. It’s been a long time since I felt…
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Mitchell’s Book of Job
I bought this book on the strength of the excerpts in Bill McKibben’s Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job and the Scale of Creation. The translation was such a rich, vivid rendering of the poetry…
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Job Journal V: Toward some answers
It wouldn’t be fair to blog about my raw reading responses, then not come back and revise my initial impressions as I learn more about the book. This’ll probably be my last entry on Job…
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Job Journal IV: Struggles
I’m trying to get my struggles with Job into words. I’m coming at the book from a perspective of faith, but there are some snarls that I haven’t untangled yet. It gets to…
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The Comforting Whirlwind: God, Job, and the Scale of Creation
It’s partly a theology book. Partly a personal meditation. Partly a Jeremiad. Partly prophetic. That’s a lot of categories for a book just 95 pages long. Crisply written, provocatively presented, and compellingly argued, The Comforting Whirlwind by Bill…
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Journalling Job III: Big Picture
When all is said and done, this is a baffling book to me. For years I’ve settled for bits and pieces of what others have said about it, and though I’ve read it…
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Journalling Job II: Emerging Themes
Here’s my Job journal through Chapter 20. The inadequacy — or adequacy? — of speech: Over and over again, Job’s friends chastise him for his words. Some examples: “How long will you say such…