Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you enjoyed your Christmas break as much as I did. It’s our first Moltmann Monday of 2011, and today’s excerpt comes from his book Jesus Christ for Today’s World. I found it fitting as we celebrate these last few days of Christmastide and…
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Sometime this summer, I was walking around with laundry in my hands, and out of who-knows-where, I was pummeled with a very disconcerting thought: this December, my daughter will be turning nine. NINE. As in, halfway to EIGHTEEN. As in, by December my parenting-my-daughter-under-my-roof season will be HALFWAY over. I…
From a Moltmann sermon on Isaiah 9: All the images the prophet uses to paint the possible future point to one fact: the birth of the divine child. The burning of the weapons, the jubilation and the great light are all caught up in the birth of God’s peace-bringer. They…
Over the years I’ve had mixed feelings about Facebook. A number of times I have debated closing my account and giving it up altogether. So I’m aware of all the critiques, and I agree with most of them. But here’s the thing. Sometimes, Facebook can be an even better connector…
Happy Advent, everyone! And what better to kick off this first Monday of Advent than a little Moltmann messianic theology? The messiah will come when it is possible because the way has been prepared for him. This is the advice of the prophets (Isaiah 40). Prepare the way for the…