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The Serpent Beguiled Me, and I Did Tweet: A Twible Presentation
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Jana Riess
Here’s a 12-minute talk I gave last month about the Twible project, with some of my favorite tweets from the Old Testament. Hope you enjoy it.
Ecclesiastes: For Everything, There Is a Season. Even for Contradictions.
By
Jana Riess
“I had no idea how cynical the Book of Ecclesiastes could be,” I told my writing group a couple of weeks ago. “It also contradicts itself over and over again: Life sucks, and then it’s beautiful. There’s no reward in heaven, but God cares about us. Rich people can’t be trusted, yet they are chosen…
Have You Hugged a Proverb Today?
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Jana Riess
This morning I tweeted the last chapter of the Book of Proverbs: #Twible Prov 31: Dawn to-do list: Buy estate. Make winter coats. Weave cloth 1st. Make family look good. Be strong. Get Michelle Obama arms. As I worked my way through Proverbs this summer, I was struck by how practical — and how relevant…
Alabama Churches Fight New Anti-Immigration Law
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Jana Riess
Yesterday in Alabama, leaders from the Roman Catholic, Episcopalian, and Methodist denominations filed suit to halt enforcement of the state’s harsh new immigration law. (Apparently they’re in good company: late yesterday, the justice department of the federal government also sued to stop the law from taking effect as planned on September 1.) What’s so bad…
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