“Go! Marry a prostitute and beget children of prostitution! For the land is guilty of the most hideous kind of prostitution for forsaking YHWH.” — Hosea 1:2 The Inclusive Bible The prophet Hosea was ...

Hosea is the prophet of pathos. Not his own; God’s. Hosea’s God is angry at Israel, but the divine emotion that runs most profoundly through his prophecy is anguish. The book relies upon an extended ...

This week the professor continues his series on the prophets of ancient Israel. Last week we considered the foundational prophet Amos. This week, his near contemporary in the eighth century B.C., the ...

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We hear it in the air: “Information is power.” Some even say enviously, “Well, some lucky people are super-informed. But we are still getting all our information from the news.” Everywhere you look, ...