Category: Bible

Psalm 90, Adam, and the Wrath of God

I’ve been catching up on my reading while I’m in Mississippi. As often happens, reading theology leads me to write. In this case, during my devotions I noticed a striking connection between Psalm 90 and the story of God expelling Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. At the same time I was reading [...]

Friday July 16th, 2010 in Bible, Orthodoxy, Religion | No Comments »

Today’s Psalm

I am reminded of the radically different moral sensibility we moderns bring to the discussion in contrast to the biblical writers. Psalm 149 is one of the psalter selections in today’s lectionary readings, where we find this (vs. 6ff) Let the high praises of God be in their throats and the two-edged swords in their [...]

Saturday July 10th, 2010 in Bible | No Comments »