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Yahweh makes promises to Abram right after He scattered nations at Babel. He pledges to extend the blessing of Abram's seed to Gentiles. His primary aim isn't to unite nations politically, but liturgically, all nations one in worshiping the one God.

We make music so music can make us. Music makes us so we can make music.

Jesus sacrificed His body in the Spirit (Heb 9:14). As His body, we offer our bodies in Spirit and breath as living sacrifices of praise.

Jephthah is a test case of typological reading. Even fictional characters like Hamlet know one and only one thing about this judge of Israel: He made a rash vow to God. Did Jephthah sacrifice his daughter? How could he foreshadow Jesus? firstthings.com/jesus-is-the-k…

Prophetic oracles are sometimes described as "burdens" (massa'; Hab 1:1; Zech 9:1; 12:1). The term comes from nasa', "to carry," used for Levitical work at the tabernacle, and massa' itself sometimes refers to Levitical song at the temple (1 Chr 15:22). Prophets lift Yahweh's

There are no setbacks in the Christian life. We're wounded, but, as Mark Brians said this week in our Fellows Program, wounds form lips for singing. The more we're wounded, the richer the polyphony of our life's song.

The Book of Revelation wasn't written to satisfy our curiosity about the future, but to make martyrs.

How did communist parties survive and flourish in post-Soviet Poland, Hungary, and elsewhere? Of course, they changed direction, and rapidly. But why would anyone support a transformed communist party? Anna Grzymała-Busse says the parties learned arts of negotiation and

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Proverbs: Meet Lady Wisdom. Ecclesiastes: Lady Wisdom obscured by the mist of life. Song of Song: Lady Wisdom reappears as Bride. Proverbs: grapes. Ecclesiastes: grapes crushed. Song of Songs: wine. -Mark Brians

"In all systematic thought, there is a tinge of pedantry. There is a putting aside of notions, of experiences, and of suggestions, with the prim excuse that of course we are not thinking of such things." Systematic thought is necessary, but "before the work of systematization

"Popes chartered the majority of universities founded prior to the Reformation: sixty-four were chartered by the papacy, thirty-four by kings or the emperor, and twenty-nine by both. After the Reformation, secular powers emerge as the clear winner." -Anna Grzymała-Busse

ICYMI: Listen to Brian Moats and Christian Leithart discuss Little Word and biblical symbolism for kids.

"Discovery, in science and poetry, is a mythological situation in which the mind unites with a figure of its own devising as a means toward understanding the world. That figure always takes the form of some kind of language ... Discovery is always under Orpheus' patronage, so to

Gardening is a royal pastime. So says Solomon (Eccl 2): "I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself; I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees; I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a