Beauty Part 2
I am writing a short series on Beauty, how we are tempted to think about it and how God might direct our thoughts about it. In the first post, I encouraged us that the Bible is more concerned with inward beauty than outward beauty. In this post I will discuss how I...
Beauty
Last spring, I worked together with some other campus ministers on a discussion for our university students on beauty and body image. This is typically a topic discussed by women. Increasingly we are becoming aware of many men who struggle with obsessive concerns...
The Spiritual Benefits of Losing at Chess
My husband, Bill, recently bought us a chess set. We are both beginners at chess. We have played two games. The first game we played together, I won. A couple of nights ago, I thought I was winning again, but suddenly I was checkmated. I didn’t see it coming. When I...
Tithes and Taxes!
We have been writing a series on Living Justly. We have talked about how all peoples, nations, and ethnicities are comprised of people created in God’s image. All have fallen into sin, because we are all part of a single race created in Adam. Jesus Christ came to our...
Re-Starting with a Book Review
Welcome back to Renewing Eve! It’s been a few months since our last post. We have been writing a series on living justly as Christians. My last post in July was on the Year of Jubilee. Since then I have been blessed to gather with various members of my family, some...
The Jubilee and Redistribution of Wealth
I have been writing a series of posts on living justly. In my last post I wrote about the practice of gleaning, and I proposed some ways to apply this ancient agrarian practice to our lives today. Today’s post will be on the practice and impact of Sabbath and Jubilee...