We gathered after the heat broke, after a day of rain, and tried to imagine Egypt. Exodus chapters 5-7, Moses and Aaron's first encounter with Pharaoh, and the beginning of the plagues. Becky wanted to know who was the younger brother, Moses or Aaron, and we found the answer in Chapter 6 - it was … Continue reading Notes from a Bible Study
Author: KPB Stevens
What Kind of God Exists?
In the second semester of my sophomore year of college - a semester when I was alone most of the time, and sad, mourning the end of a relationship and trying to figure out who I was without the girl who had left - during this depressing semester I took a class called “Philosophy of … Continue reading What Kind of God Exists?
Under the Covers
by The Rev. Karl Stevens “Why didn’t Jesus have sex?” One of my students asked me this some years ago. We were in the middle of cooking dinner for our weekly campus ministry meal, and my thoughts were on the onions simmering in a pan and on gathering the ingredients to make dessert. I was … Continue reading Under the Covers
The Man with the Withered Hand
He was there, in the synagogue on a Sabbath, an observant Jew. His withered hand didn't limit his worship - he wasn't a Levite, he wasn't a priest. He couldn't work because of it, but this wasn't a day that required work. It was the one day when his hand didn't matter, the Sabbath, when … Continue reading The Man with the Withered Hand
The Fig Tree Canticle
Here's a painting, or actually two paintings, that I've been working on for the last few weeks. They're really meant to be an entry into prayer, a meditation on Luke 13 and Mark 11, on the apocalyptic imagery in Jesus's language and the call to redemption. Many of the visual ideas come from the Rothschild … Continue reading The Fig Tree Canticle
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