Posts Tagged: temple

The Dance of the Divinely Human and Humanly Divine (Luke 2:41-52)

The day after Christmas is nearly unavoidably anticlimactic.  The presents have been opened, television programming seems blasphemously normal, and mom and dad get to experience what presents the children actually enjoy and which presents they said they wanted but have not yet bothered to acknowledge.  This year on the day after Christmas, Christie and I… Read more »

If Israel Was in Charge of the Olympics

If Israel were to ever host the Olympics, I wonder what the opening ceremony would look like?  Which stories would they tell?  David would certainly be part of the story.  He was the underdog, the young shepherd boy who was chosen to be king.  How many times will the story of David and Goliath be… Read more »