On June 15, we launched the online summer Bible study, Scouting the Divine: My Search for God in Wine, Wool, and Wild Honey. I spent months with shepherds, farmers, beekeepers, and vintners in order to understand the agrarian themes of Scripture. -Why is the Promised...
I’m thrilled you’re back and joining us as we are Scouting the Divine in this summer online Bible study. This week, we’re spending more time with Lynne, the shepherdess, in order to understand the hundreds of sheep, shepherd, and flock references throughout the Bible....
Throughout Scripture, Jesus uses natural wonders to explain supernatural truths. From fruitless figs and buzzing bees to choking weeds and lost sheep, it’s no secret that the Bible is steeped in an agrarian culture. Now I never used to think about sheep very much. Or...
On far too many days I read the Bible and don’t connect. It feels flat. Cold. Distant. The pages may contain timeless tales, but they feel boring. Flat. Stiff. They feel written endless miles away, in distant cultures, far off lands, a way of life I can’t relate to no...
Wendell Berry is like grit for my fingernails, a writer who helps me breathe in the thickness of life. In his stunning essay, “Contempt for Small Places,” this farmer with a prophetic bent writes: “The health of the oceans depends on the health of rivers; the health...
The loudest voices in our culture herald a consistent message. Go big. Go viral. Get busy. Get distracted. Ooh! Look at this. Ooh! Shiny, shiny, shiny. Perhaps you’ve noticed this, too. The screens and software and computer devices we use are designed to train us to...
