Archive for February, 2012

Luke 14: 15-24 (NRSV)   One of the dinner guests, on hearing this, said to him, ‘Blessed is anyone who will eat bread in the kingdom of God!’ Then Jesus said to him, ‘Someone gave a great dinner and invited many. At the time for the dinner he sent his servant to say to those [...]

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Now this is an allegory: these women are two covenants. One woman, in fact, is Hagar, from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery. (Gal 4:24 NRSV)   Every now and again it is good to think about how one interprets the Bible.  Congregationalism is a direct descendant of the Protestant Reformation.  Paul here uses the [...]

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