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september 2018 disoriented reoriented skip to content disoriented reoriented theology politics nerdiness menu and widgets about the blog smartypants stuff most popular posts 1 christians have power how will we use it 2 the radical femininity of christ 3 book review how god became king 4 opening communion for the 3 year olds 5 telling god s story not the old testament s 6 chaos creation and midterms 7 christians and the nra 8 john chrysostom and the 47 percent 9 love wins 10 keep the mithra in christmas like me like me tweets tweets by disorientedblog personal faves the 99 percent a different god poverty is the church on the wrong side immanuel moore oklahoma jed bartlet s job moment a letter to three daughters the toxic assumption of the biblical worldview sex and the single doctrine of original sin our postmodern god p o d christians and the f word did paul write these letters a psalm of lament for a boy now gone personal faves ot edition the american amos god to job humans are so overrated the time jeremiah accused god of raping him jonah the evangelist finding refuge in the pentateuch when god abuses amaziah the republican the unfair god personal faves lgbt edition neither male nor female slave nor free gay nor straight redeeming homosexuality retiring love the sinner hate the sin why chick fil a s donations are important what if the writers of the bible were just wrong why don t christians support polygamy it s ok to be gay tags 2 samuel abortion about me acts of the apostles apologetics bible blog business books children church consumerism corinthians daniel eschatology evangelicals evolution exodus faith fundamentalism genesis genocide gospel of john gospel of luke gospel of mark gospel of matthew gospels grad school hell history holidays homosexuality immigration isaiah jeremiah jesus job law liberation literalism love money music new testament old testament parenting paul pentateuch politics pop culture prayer prophets psalms race religion revelation romans science sermons sex slavery struggles suffering summit the flood theodicy theology the poor trump universalism vengeance violence war wisdom women worship violence for jesus part 1 when soldiers couldn t be christians part 2 constantine and augustine part 3 charlemagne s forced baptisms part 4 the crusades the christian case for obama part 1 against romney part 2 for obama part 3 the drone problem was mary really a virgin part 1 ground rules part 2 what paul says part 3 what mark says part 4 matthew and luke similarities and contradictions part 5 what else matthew and luke say part 6 what john says part 7 extrabiblical accounts part 8 old testament prophecy part 9 theological defenders xpart 10 searching for a better defense xpart 11 gromacki s defense xpart 12 the arbitrariness of virginity xpart 13 the history of the doctrine xpart 14 n t wright s defense xpart 15 the liberal metaphorization xpart 16 summary xpart 17 the verdict can paul be trusted on sexuality part 1 the sin of effeminacy part 2 the concept of self mastery part 3 the primacy of masculinity part 4 jewish apologetics part 5 paul s purposes what the bible gets wrong about god part 1 the problem part 2 the evidence part 3 the contradictions part 4 the evolution prophets and politics part 1 the prophets part 2 the response part 3 my response who i read nt blog ancient jew review starts with a bang richard beck naturalis historia larry hurtado the jesus blog jacobin christian ethics bites charis variant readings pete enns homebrewed christianity damon parker rachel held evans jesus creed archives july 2020 june 2020 april 2020 december 2019 september 2019 august 2019 july 2019 june 2019 april 2019 march 2019 february 2019 december 2018 november 2018 october 2018 september 2018 august 2018 july 2018 june 2018 may 2018 april 2018 february 2018 january 2018 december 2017 august 2017 october 2013 september 2013 august 2013 july 2013 june 2013 may 2013 april 2013 march 2013 february 2013 january 2013 december 2012 november 2012 october 2012 september 2012 august 2012 july 2012 june 2012 may 2012 april 2012 march 2012 february 2012 january 2012 december 2011 november 2011 october 2011 september 2011 august 2011 july 2011 month september 2018 facebook flashback racism demons and loving our enemies originally posted to facebook on sept 21 2016 it has only suffered minor edits in transplanting it here i just finished reading richard beck s reviving old scratch a book about the devil and spiritual warfare for people who question if not totally reject literal notions of demons and angels it cautions against overpoliticizing and over metaphorizing those concepts because the bible talks about them not just in relation to political power but also to internal moral struggles found within each person fighting for social justice is spiritual warfare but so too is loving others emptying yourself for them fighting daily against the fear of death and the fear of loss and the love of money and country and possessions that militate against radical sacrificing love lots of food for thought in that book for those who believe in a literal satan and for those who don t beck believes we should recover a language of the demonic understanding that powers greater than humanity do indeed ensnare us call them what you will but nazism stalinism systems of fascism and totalitarianism and apartheid are demonic more they are demons that burrow into the fabrics of societies and require active struggle both collective and individual to defeat and defang our society more than at any point in the past 50 years is actively doing battle against the demon of racism it s a demon born to justify the much older demon of slavery together they were carried aboard ships across the atlantic they planted deep roots in america s urban centers and in southern labor camps they joined with the demons of materialism and consumerism to build an economy unrivaled in the world together they unseated whole nations destroyed families murdered millions a physical war was required to break the partnership and loosen the hold of slavery on our society but racism persisted it persists it is weaker than it was but it is wilier when martin and malcolm and stokely and others helped to cast it out of our laws it sank deeper into our cultures it wrapped itself in a flag and called itself heritage it remains the demon we are most likely to condemn and least likely to confront continue reading facebook flashback racism demons and loving our enemies posted on september 24 2018 categories book reports current events facebook flashback hard questions tags books demons faith history love race religion satan theology leave a comment on facebook flashback racism demons and loving our enemies botham jean the suffering servant here is my servant whom i uphold my chosen one in whom i delight isaiah 42 1a jean was 26 and a native of saint lucia in the caribbean he worked with at risk boys there visited orphanages and ministered to the sick his mother said friends and family remember jean as someone who loved to help others and volunteered his time as a man with a beautiful smile and a beautiful voice dallas morning news but i said i have labored in vain i have spent my strength for nothing at all yet what is due me is in the lord s hand and my reward is with my god isaiah 49 4 guyger described the apartment as being dark and she thought she had encountered a burglar which was described as a large silhouette across the room in her apartment guyger drew her firearm gave verbal commands that were ignored by jean and then she fired two shots jean was shot once and died fort worth star telegram he was led like a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before its shearers is silent so he did not open his mouth by oppression and judgment he was taken away yet who of his generation protested isaiah 53 7 8a while the arrest warrant describes jean as being across the room the search warrant says he confronted guyger at his door fwst he was assigned a grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death though he had done no violence nor was any deceit in his mouth isaiah 53 9 as hundreds gathered thursday to pay tribute to the beloved man from st lucia a search warrant for his apartment was made public the document states that officers found several items in the apartment including two fired cartridge casings a metal marijuana grinder and 10 4 grams of marijuana the search warrant indicates that officers went inside the apartment looking for drugs the night of jean s death his mother allison jean said during a news conference friday with her attorneys she accused authorities of defaming her son twenty six years on this earth he lived his life without a blemish it took being murdered by a dallas police officer for botham jean to suddenly become a criminal cnn he who vindicates me is near who then will bring charges against me let us face each other who is my accuser let him confront me it is the sovereign lord who helps me who will condemn me they will all wear out like a garment the moths will eat them up isaiah 50 8 9 botham shem jean was not a silhouette family friend dane felicien said garnering a standing ovation from the packed sanctuary including dallas mayor mike rawlings and dallas police chief u renee hall botham shem jean was a fine man and botham shem jean deserves to be with jesus dallas morning news therefore i will give him a portion among the great and he will divide the spoils with the strong because he poured out his life unto death and was numbered with the transgressors isaiah 53 12ab posted on september 17 2018 categories current events tags black lives matter isaiah old testament race religion violence 2 comments on botham jean the suffering servant a brief review texts of terror by phyllis trible quick name the absolute worst parts of the bible chances are you thought of one of these four stories tw the rape and dismemberment of the concubine in judges the rape of tamar by her half brother the sacrifice of jephthah s daughter in order to fulfill a vow he made to god and the use abuse and expulsion of hagar and ishmael these stories all of them describing violence against women without overt condemnation by either god or the narrator s are what phyllis trible calls texts of terror somewhat surprisingly she analyzes these passages not to explain them away or redeem them with a pro woman retelling but to simply sit with them to understand the fully the depth and breadth of the horror these passages inflict on the characters and therefore on us the readers who cannot help but sympathize with them in so doing trible hopes to memorialize them these four women two of them nameless one of them voiceless all of them utterly vulnerable to the whims and lusts of powerful men do not get preached from pulpits featured in liturgies or adhered to flannelgraphs yet they are essential parts of the judeo christian tradition if nothing else they personify as trible expertly highlights the qualities of the suffering servant in second isaiah s famous prophecies although originally referring to israel christians taking cues from the gospels have appropriated the suffering servant of isaiah 53 to describe jesus a man of sorrows acquainted with grief as a sheep before its shearers is silent so he opened not his mouth etc trible moves in the opposite direction identifying these four women as suffering servants and given the longstanding christian confession of jesus as the sufferer implicitly identifying them as christ figures most poignantly trible makes this association explicit in her analysis of the concubine in gibeah echoing the more famous tale of lot in sodom do these stories reflect a single event buried deep in israel s memory and adjusted as needed for different contexts i d say it s likely but that s not trible s concern here the concubine and her master spend the night in an old man s home where men of the city arrive and demand the male guest be given to them to rape the man offers the concubine instead and she is raped and tortured until morning and potentially killed although trible points out the text seems to indicate the concubine s master actually murders her once they arrive back to his home in ephraim trible describes the key moment this way truly the hour is at hand and the woman is betrayed into the hands of sinners trible s insight and deft handling of the texts make texts of terror a swift and insightful read i d almost call it a joy but the subject matter makes that an impossibility she refuses to get bogged down in questions of authorship redaction or historical criticism all things i enjoy getting bogged down in but which would serve to distract from the women at the center of trible s focus her goal is to dig as deep as possible into the texts as they are under the assumption that the text we have is there for a reason no matter how it got that way therefore trible points out patterns and structures of the original hebrew that have become invisible under the layers of translation and interpretation that have accumulated over the millennia some of these are brilliant and beautiful others feel like more of a stretch but all of them are fascinating and demand careful consideration almost uniformly trible ends up highlighting how the original text mercilessly marginalizes and degrades these women but that s the point trible is telling sad stories as she puts it in her introduction that they are sad does not mean they are worthless indeed sad stories often tell us more about ourselves than happy ones they force us to wrestle with the world as the world is with god as god is and with the bible as the bible is not as we wish those things would be for wrestling with them we hopefully emerge stronger with greater insight on what it means to be a suffering servant in whom we should see the life and work of jesus published 34 years ago in 1984 texts of terror remains a vitally important work one that should be on the bookshelf of every preacher every counselor and every church leader in a day where many women are finding their voices for the first time we would all do well to return to trible s classic in which she helps four ancient women cry me too posted on september 5 2018 categories bible study book reports current events hard questions learning tags 2 samuel books church genesis hagar history judges old testament religion tamar theology violence women leave a comment on a brief review texts of terror by phyllis trible blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed disoriented reoriented join 179 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy disoriented reoriented subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar design a site like this with wordpress com get started