Laura Mariko Cheifetz

O Little Town of Bethlehem

An Advent Conversation with Chosen? As Walter Brueggemann says on the very first page of his recent book Chosen?, “Reading the Bible with reference to any contemporary issue is at best tricky and hazardous.” Reading the Bible in Advent in

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Job 10

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Job cries out to God, and is so very relatable. He has lost children, animals, household members, wealth, status, and health. And his cries feel somehow familiar. For all the times that God feels so close to us, in the holy and beautiful moments, we also feel as though God

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Race Gives Me Poetry

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Racism kills. It dehumanizes us all, telling some of us we are less than human and rendering others of us incapable of having a decent conversation about it. It takes our best intentions and misshapes them beyond recognition; no matter what we do or what we mean to do, we

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O Little Town of Bethlehem

14 mins read

An Advent Conversation with Chosen? As Walter Brueggemann says on the very first page of his recent book Chosen?, “Reading the Bible with reference to any contemporary issue is at best tricky and hazardous.” Reading the Bible in Advent in light of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is both natural and dangerous.

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