Romans, Part 8

Paul continued writing to those who do not know that God’s kindness leads you to repentance (μετάνοιαν, a form of μετάνοια).1  But because of your stubbornness (σκληρότητα, a form of σκληρότης) and your unrepentant (ἀμετανόητον, a form of ἀμετανόητος) heart, you are...

Romans, Part 5

I’m not homophobic in the sense that I find the idea so repugnant I can’t imagine it.  In my twenties I was homophobic in the sense that I watched the guy I was most likely to have sex with change from slightly effeminate to flaming queer in a matter of weeks.  I was...

Jephthah’s Religious Mind

When Jephthah sacrificed his daughter to justify himself he became the least like Moses as a leader.  After God spoke the law1 to all the Israelites assembled at Mount Sinai, Moses went up the mountain to learn from God about the construction of, and worship in, the...