by Mark Hamilton | Feb 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
This is part 2 of 3. Thank you for your comments to the first part of the essay. I am grateful for the encouragement and look forward to the ongoing conversation! The Theological Landscape Today But if the news is good, what precisely is it about? To...
by Mark Hamilton | Jan 31, 2012 | Uncategorized
Once upon a time, a group of cousins inherited a large mansion, one of those plantation houses with wide be-columned porches all about, from which the owners could gaze across verdant lawns down to the river. It had once been glorious, and parts of it still were,...
by Mark Hamilton | Jan 17, 2012 | Uncategorized
Psalm 58 is one of those troublesome hymns that seems much too honest for our polite, bourgeois church language. Other than the first couple of verses, it contains a string of invectives that seem to fantasize about a world in which evil people (“those with...
by Mark Hamilton | Jan 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
One of the recurring notions of the Bible that seems counter-intuitive to many of us is that God’s reputation among human beings matters and that we religious people have some bearing on it. It’s not that the Bible thinks that God needs human beings to...
by Mark Hamilton | Jan 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Psalm 56 appears in a string of psalms that affirm trust in God. This string begins in Psalm 53, or maybe even 51, and continues for awhile (where it stops is a bit unclear, or rather, is a subjective decision). These psalms seem to belong together somehow, and even...
