Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Book Review

“Jesus Imagination,” by Leonard Sweet (Part 1)

What I have been calling quantum thinking, moving from the binary "not this but that" to the quantum "yes this and also that" Sweet entitles "sacred tensions," in Chapter 14, and Kierkegaard calls paradox the thinker's passion, and that is the perfect way to begin.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Isaiah

Isaiah 21: Oracles Against Babylon, Edom, and Arabia

What God revealed to Isaiah was so horrifying it caused the prophet intense physical pain.

Joanne Guarnieri Hagemeyer Isaiah

Isaiah 13: Shades of Babylon

At first glance, this oracle seems to encompass a final day of judgment and wrath that sweeps up the entire globe in an event still future to us today. Yet, tucked into this far-reaching oracle are also mentions of Babylon, an empire long since crumbled into dust, with only the remnants of its grandeur ensconced in museums here and there. What do we make of this strange juxtaposition?