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Elsewhere: Tears of Eden/Uncertain Podcast (II)
My friend and colleague Katherine Spearing invited me back to the Tears of Eden/Uncertain podcast to discuss my article about Jesus as a Victim of Sexual Assault and Humiliation. Find the episode page here or listen through Spotify below.
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A Christmas Sermon
As I was cleaning up some files on my computer, I came across a sermon I delivered in 2017. I hope you find it encouraging as this Lenten season comes to a close. In the violence, and in the uncertainty, and in the catastrophe of the world today—in light of human frailty and brokenness—Jesus is […]
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On Temptation (Versuchung) in Bonhoeffer (II)
This post is the second of two examining Bonhoeffer’s theology of temptation as reflected in his essay, “Bible Study on Temptation, June 20–25, 1938,” found in the English edition of Bonhoeffer’s Works (vol. 15, pp. 386-415). Click here to view part one, which covers the first part of the essay—a more conceptual treatment of the concept of […]
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On Temptation (Versuchung) in Bonhoeffer (I)
The reading from the New Testament on Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, comes from Luke 4:1-13. This pericope concerns the temptation of Christ by the devil while he was in the wilderness. On reading commentaries about this passage, I came across multiple references to Bonhoeffer’s essay, “Temptation,” found in various places and translated in […]
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Jesus as Victim of Sexual Humiliation & Assault
Preliminary Thoughts with Tombs and Bonhoeffer 27 Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the governor’s headquarters,l and they gathered the whole cohort around him. 28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and after twisting some thorns into a crown, they put it on his head. They put […]