by Ann Drake | Mar 26, 2019 | Pantry Musings
Paul writes what Beker calls a “dialogue theology” (J. Christiaan Beker, Paul, the Apostle). What he means by this is that in every letter Paul’s audience defines how he will discuss the shape of Christianity for that particular audience given their particular...
by Ann Drake | Mar 21, 2019 | Pantry Musings
I’ve made an error in reading Paul’s letters. Like many people, I assumed that Romans was a dogmatic statement of Paul’s theology. However, like everything else we have from him, Romans is a letter. Now, if you’re reading a letter written to someone else, you...
by Ann Drake | Mar 12, 2019 | Pantry Musings
We recently had the first Sunday of Lent. These forty days before Easter are used often as a period of self-reflection and repentance. This time is perhaps the most important in the Christian calendar, for it ends with the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Christ....
by Ann Drake | Mar 5, 2019 | Pantry Musings
Ash Wednesday is on March 6th this year. But what is this day? It is a day when we come to get ashes imposed on our foreheads, and that seems to be important. But why? We have a hard time with the word sin, but that is the reason for the ashes. I would like to try to...
