Category: Bible Studies
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The Vigil of Rizpah
2 Samuel 21:1-14 The Bus Stop and the Rock On the evening of 22 April 1993, Stephen Lawrence, eighteen years old, was waiting at a bus stop in Eltham, southeast London, when he was surrounded and stabbed to death by a group of white youths who had called out a racial slur before they attacked…
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From Bethel to the Marketplace: What God Hears on Sunday
A Verse Without Its Context I have sat in many church services where Amos 5:24 was read out or put on a banner. “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.” People say it at marches. Preachers use it on Racial Justice Sunday. Community groups put it on their posters. I…
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Before Moses, there were Midwives
Exodus and Liberation A Subversive Reading of Shiphrah and Puah Exodus 1:15–21 Introduction: The Story the Canon Almost Skipped The story of Shiphrah and Puah is easy to miss. It occupies seven verses in the opening chapter of Exodus, it introduces no hero the tradition will remember, and it is quickly overtaken by the more…