Hope all of you had a good Thanksgiving! Moltmann Monday is back with an excerpt from a Theology Today article on children, childhood and hope. Here’s a snippet: The child, whose birth and whose future reign of peace devoid of violence and war Isaiah announced (chapters 9,11), is the “Son…
Advent
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…
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…
There is nothing that makes me more weepy than a children’s Christmas program…and that’s saying a lot, because I’m not that person who cries at movies or heartstring-pulling commercials, or at much of anything, really. But give me two minutes in a chapel filled with children singing Christmas songs and…
Every year from Thanksgiving to Epiphany, my husband listens to nothing but Christmas music. I will get into my car and find the presets to a Christmas music station. The minute he steps in the door after work, he turns it on- this year using some app through his iPhone…