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religious neutrality is a myth

They have treated the wound of my people superficially, saying, “Peace, peace!” But there is no peace. I’ve said it before, I’m saying it now, and I will continue saying it as long as people pretend that personal or governmental religious neutrality is possible. It isn’t. It is possible for people of different religions to [...]
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jeremiah 36

This chapter is referenced in the Confession of Faith in a Mennonite Perspective (1995) as an example of how Scripture comes into being: Related Posts:mennonite monday, article fourwhat eved-melek means to meAdam and the Enslavement of Humanity, Part 1Tragicomedy, Slavery, and the Bible: a Look at the MetanarrativeThe Two Houses of Israel — Reconsidering Isaiah [...]
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posting through the deuterocanonicals: tobit 1

Let us begin this journey with the book of Tobit, because that’s what the deuterocanon starts with in my NRSV.  Quotations in these posts, however, will be adapted from the KJV, to avoid copyright restrictions.  Feel free to use the text if you find it in any way useful.  Let us begin: Related Posts:deuterocanonical friday: [...]
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what eved-melek means to me

When I was a little boy I had a little Bible book of cartoon pictures, a far more complete Bible than many children’s Bibles–if I remember right it even included the book of Hosea.  Serious children’s Bible.  Everyone did, however, look suspiciously European in skin tone. Except for Eved Melek.  Eved Melek was black, and [...]
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