Author: Jen Noricks
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Redeeming Bathsheba: A Feminist Interpretation
This 12-minute video was a project for my Public Theology class. Here, I challenge the traditional tropes that portray Bathsheba as seductive and adulterous, digging into the often overlooked evidence that her encounter with David was sexual assault.
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Bomb | Balm | Bloom
Christians should be talking less about punishment and more about flourishing. If you’ve hung around churches that talk about “getting saved,” you and I share a common language. Have you been saved? is a familiar question to us. In those churches, the typical story of how we obtained salvation was this: We were born with…
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“Blessed are those who defend their rights,” said nobody, ever.
This week, I have been thinking hard about the self-identified Christians making news. Some believe their religious freedom is under attack. They are fighting back by seeking to legalize discrimination. I was actually going to write an entire post about that issue today. Then, I saw this news story. Priests in the Ukraine are leaving their opulent…
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