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Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform
Check out this new article from GDR Ph.D. student Ludwig Noya: Abstract: Recent interpretations of the Sabbath rest concept in the Hebrew Bible tend to highlight its humanitarian aspect. However, in this paper, I aim to nuance this claim by attending to a rarely discussed Sabbath text in Nehemiah 13. Read MoreAug. 7, 2023
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Liberation Theologies and Their Future: Rethinking Categories and Popular Participation in Liberation
Check out this new article co-authored by Priscila Silva and Joerg Rieger Abstract: The first generation of Latin American liberation theologies was marked by the methodological status of the preferential option for the poor. In the following generations, this commitment was further developed in the struggle for a new… Read MoreJul. 19, 2023
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2023 Charge to the Graduates
Divinity School Commencement Celebration. Delivered by Dean Emilie Townes, Emerita May 12, 2023 each year, i am reminded that you and i (and countless others) are often called to ministry in the midst of the senselessness of our worlds now some folks would say that this is depressing a downer somewhat despairing… Read MoreJul. 13, 2023