This Week in Word from the Bird
Hi everyone, I’m visiting Canada for the next two weeks, but rest assured the blog posts will still be coming!
Monday: The Psalms Stir Memories of Faith in a Post-Religious World (Free Sign-Ups)
People of many faiths, deep faith, post-faith, non-faith, or even anti-faith, still find ways to resonate with the Psalms as they sing out songs of human experience, from the deepest longings of the soul for something transcendent, all the way through to our outbursts of anger and pain where we fall into despair.
Wednesday: Two Powers in Heaven - A Review (Free Sign-Ups)
I wish I had discovered the various works of Dr. Andrei Orlov earlier as he has produced some stimulating pieces of research about intermediary figures, angels, heavenly doppelgangers, and even supernatural serpents, with a particular expertise on Jewish and Christian pseudepigrapha and Hekhalot materials.
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Friday: How Poor were the Corinthian Churches? (Paid Subscribers)
There is something of a debate about the socio-economic location and stratification of the Corinthian house churches. Were they most poor, slightly rich, or a mix of both?
The Two Powers review looks really good. I wonder if it’s like Dr. Heiser’s work on it.
where in this fair [if cold] country will you be? I am in Orillia, (north of Toronto)