The nativity stories are a particular way of telling about Jesus. They function as a kind of overture for the rest of the gospel. Overtures, are the “opening part (French ouverture) of a work that serves as summary, synthesis, metaphor, symbol of the whole.” This is not to say the nativity stories are ahistorical, but […]
Category: prayer
The Prayers of the People: Judges, Widows, Pharisees,Tax Collectors, and Us
In Luke’s gospel, Jesus tells two parables about prayer one right after the other. That’s probably not an accident. Whether Jesus actually told these parable back to back or Luke puts them in this order, we should pause and wonder how each parable interprets the other. The first parable is about a widow who will […]
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