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The Top Five Types of Psalms
By
Jana Riess
In seminary I took a course on the Psalms. As I go through the Psalter now in the Twible, I am rediscovering all the marginal notes I made in my Bible of things I apparently knew back in those days but have since forgotten. It’s always depressing when that happens and you realize that once…
To Tweet or Not to Tweet?
By
Jana Riess
As many of you know, I am a daily Twitter person, tweeting out a chapter of the Bible every day with humorous — okay, sometimes snarky — commentary. For the last year and a half I’ve been deeply interested in Twitter’s power to communicate, if we can only cut past all the noise of people…
Does God Promise Justice? Job 24-30
By
Jana Riess
Does God promise us justice? The short answer seems to be no. Well, maybe. Probably not. The Book of Job, which we’ve been delving into in the Twible these past few weeks, raises all the requisite questions about suffering — the most important one being: if God is just, then why does life so often…
I Know That My Redeemer–Uh, Make That Avenger–Lives: Job 25
By
Jana Riess
In my church we sing a beautiful hymn called “I Know That My Redeemer Lives,” based on a famous passage from Job 25: 25: 25 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: 25: 26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body,…
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