by Mark Hamilton | Aug 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
In our own times of turmoil (what times aren’t?), the need for security seems acute. Without security, there can be no creativity, no nurturing, no healing. But where do we obtain security? Remember Henry Kissinger’s line, “Each success only buys...
by Mark Hamilton | Aug 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Our colleague Wendell Willis, who teaches New Testament, offered this devotional in worship yesterday. Our thanks for him for sharing it. If you have worshipped with very small churches, especially in mission contexts where there are only a handful of believers in...
by Mark Hamilton | Aug 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Psalm 45 is one of those texts that means different things to different readers. It seems to have begun its life as an epithalamium, a poem for a wedding between an Israelite king and a foreign queen. Later readers connected it to Jesus, not just because they...
by Mark Hamilton | Aug 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
After a bit of a break, this post marks a return to the Psalms. Welcome back! Reputation. The legend is that at his trial for cheating in baseball, Shoeless Joe Jackson was accosted by a young fan who said, “Say it ain’t so, Joe! Say it ain’t...
by Mark Hamilton | Jul 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here are some thoughts on spirituality in the Old Testament, which I take to be spirituality for those of us who don’t make good mystics but would like to make good Christians. This is from a talk given a few months ago to our faculty. I’d welcome your...
by Mark Hamilton | Jun 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
In only a few weeks, America and the world will commemorate the tenth anniversary of the infamous day in which airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, triggering a global war against terrorist organizations and their supporters, real or...