This week Amy and Bobby read 1 Kings 5:1-6 13-18 and 8:1-13, the story of the Temple’s construction. We think a lot about the messy intermingling of self-interest and service to God or to the good, in Solomon’s time and today, and we appreciate that while the text doesn’t comment on it, it doesn’t try to hide it, either. We see the need to be suspicious about the way that religion can be manipulated to gain political power. And we sit with the almost amusing juxtaposition of an infinite God, who dwells in a cloud, who travels the desert, coming to inhabit this incredibly grand, seemingly permanent, and deeply human structure of cedar. It is a slightly awkward but sort of sweet meeting place for humans and the divine.
Episode 311 Let Justice Roll Down (Amos 1:1-2 and 5:14-24)
Episode 310 Elijah and the Still Small Voice of God (1 Kings 19:1-18)
Episode 308 The Anointing of David (1 Samuel 16:1-13 and Psalm 51:10-14)
Episode 307 The Call of Samuel (1 Samuel 3:1-21)
Episode 306 Manna in the Wilderness (Exodus 16:1-18)
Episode 305 The Call of Moses (Exodus 2:23-25; 3:1-15; 4:1-10)
Episode 304 SPECIAL EPISODE Brent Strawn: Lies My Preacher Told Me
Episode 303 The Blessing of Jacob (Genesis 27:1-23 and 28:10-17)
Episode 302 The Binding of Isaac (Genesis 21:1-3 and 22:1-14)
Episode 301 God's Generous Creativity (Genesis 1:1-2:4a)
Episode 250 (Replay) Resisting Ethnic Nationalism (Esther 3:1-11 and 7:1-10)
Episode 249 (Replay) Resisting the Patriarchy (Esther 1:1-22)
Episode 248 (Replay) Reading Ruth Against the Grain (Ruth 1:14-18 and 3:1-15)
Episode 247 (Replay) Making Ancient Israel Great Again (Ruth 2:1-20 and 4:9-17)
Episode 246 (Replay) Solidarity and Allegory (Song of Songs 5:2-9 and 8:5-10)
Episode 245 (Replay) The Joy of Sex (Song of Songs1:12-2:6 and 7:1-13)
Episode 244 (Replay) Trauma Has Many Voices (Lamentations 3 and 5)
Episode 243 (Replay) Trauma and Protest (Lamentations 1:18-22 and 2:10-22)
Episode 242 (Replay) For Everything There is a Time (Ecclesiastes 1:4-11 and 3:1-11)
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