Posted by Amy Marga on 5/1/2015 6:22 AM
Podcast featuring Luther Seminary professors Eric Barreto, Cameron Howard and Amy Marga.
Article by Amy Marga.
The Bible offers a picture of God who mothers through the work of birthing, preserving, and nurturing God’s children. But such imagery is not without some tension.
God’s mothering work begins in childbirth, as most mothering work does. The sea leaps out of God’s womb (Job 38:8), and the ice is brought forth from God’s womb (Job 38:28-29). Creation thus is not just …
Posted by Eric Barreto on 9/10/2014 11:17 AM
Eric Barreto provides insight on Matthew 20 -- the parable of the landowner and the day laborers -- and what it tells us about God’s justice.
Watch this brief video to find out how different readers come to different conclusions around the same parable.
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Posted by Kathryn M. Schifferdecker on 8/4/2014 12:53 PM
Kathyrn Schifferdecker, Luther Seminary associate professor of Old Testament, talks about the conversation that God has with Job in Job 38.
"These speeches can easily be read as God beating Job down," said Schifferdecker. She also talks about how the divine speeches can also be seen as a way to view the creation, and humanity's place within that world.
"God shows all this to Job ... to expand his vision, to see the beautiful and wild and ordered world that God has created," said Schifferdecker. …
Posted by Matt Skinner on 7/8/2014 8:29 AM
Matt Skinner, Luther Seminary associate professor of New Testament, talks about the words that Paul passes along in 1 Thessalonians 5 to encourage Christians in their everyday life with one another.
Posted by Karoline Lewis on 5/14/2014 1:21 PM
Karoline Lewis, associate professor of preaching and Alvin N. Rogness Chair of Homiletics at Luther Seminary, explains in this 3-minute video the value in reading Bible passages from a variety of translations.
She uncovers the way that different translators portray Jesus' baptism and death in the Gospel of Mark, and makes the point that the words we choose shape the way we see God's activity.
"God was located in the Holy of Holies, behind that temple curtain. But if God is not behind the curtain …
Posted by Terence E. Fretheim on 9/1/2013 10:33 AM
Podcast discussion with Eric Barreto, Cameron Howard and Terence Fretheim.
Article written by Terence Fretheim.
A regular rhythm of natural disasters has occurred in recent years, from floods in the Midwest, to fires in California and Colorado, to hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, to earthquakes in China and Haiti, to the tsunamis in Southeast Asia. The list is long.
Given this painful history, it is not surprising that the Bible’s pages are filled with references to natural disasters: the flood, …
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Posted by Terence E. Fretheim on 2/13/2013 12:38 PM
Luther Seminary Professor Terry Fretheim reads Isaiah 43, the only verse in the Bible where God uses the phrase, "I love you."
Watch Fretheim explain why this passage is so powerful: "God values who you are. God honors your place in this relationship. And God places confidence in you to speak, and act, and pray in ways that God can use. For you are God's own vineyard, God's own garden of imagination, God's very own beloved."