There is a lot of controversy about this chapter. Is Naomi’s plan a good one? Why does she send Ruth to do this? What exactly happens between Ruth and Boaz? Was Ruth right to obey her mother-in-law? Was she right to change the plan in the moment? Should Boaz already have “redeemed” Ruth? Was he [...]
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Questions
Posted: March 24, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: Boaz, interpretation, Naomi, questions, righteousness, Ruth
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The problem of killing – ORANGE
Posted: March 14, 2012 in OrangeTags: community, consequences, death, Joshua, law, questions, refuge
What do you do with someone who has killed another person? In every society ever, this is one of the biggest and most pressing questions. If everyone just gets to walk around killing whomever they want, you don’t really have much of a society, and you definitely don’t have much in the way of public [...]
Whose story is it, anyway?
Posted: March 2, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: Aaron, interpretation, Miriam, Moses, questions, story
Ok, we’ve had weird and tricky stories already in the first few books of the Bible, and we’ll have more. But usually the people whose job it is to think and write about these stories can at least agree on what the story is about. Numbers 12 is different. Some people think it’s about prophecy [...]
When big disasters happen, you can usually find some news story somewhere about someone who came THIS CLOSE to dying/being hurt/losing their home/suffering in some other way, but who missed their bus/stopped for coffee/didn’t stop for coffee/happened to barely miss it for some other reason. And then that person says, “I’m so grateful that God [...]
People are goofy
Posted: January 29, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: dreams, Jacob, Joseph, questions, Shechem
When I read this story, especially right after reading the Jacob stories that we’ve been reading, here is what strikes me most: These people are goofy. All of them. So Jacob has made it to Canaan, and has been sobered a little by his experience of life. He’s a little less of a traveler, a [...]
Good question!
Posted: January 19, 2012 in Orange, YellowTags: faith, Isaac, prayer, questions, Rebekah
Rebekah and Isaac are like most people. When it comes to how they live their lives, they choose a mix of old ways and new ones. Like Abraham and Sarah, they worship the LORD, and they care about what the LORD has in mind (which is a little remarkable considering that Isaac was nearly killed [...]
Today we’re taking a moment out of time, so to speak, and considering Ishmael’s whole life… which there isn’t much of in Scripture. Most of what we know from the Bible is in today’s reading (the other piece is that Ishmael comes back and helps bury Abraham when he dies). I’m not going to say [...]
