December 2025
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The Road Meets Us Here: Thoughts on the New Year
As 2026 nears, I’m somewhere in the in-between—past the messy parts of this year, but not quite ready to claim clarity about what’s next. And maybe that’s okay: Scripture reminds us that God often leads us into the waiting, into… Continue reading
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Advent and Preemptive Fury
I’ve been reflecting a lot about time during this Advent season. During these weeks, our present seems more refracted through the past and future than usual. We celebrate the birth of Jesus and anticipate the second coming of Christ in… Continue reading
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On Being “Secular” in Sweden: Categories that Shift
The Cambridge Dictionary defines secular as “not having any connection to religion.” But in its colloquial use in post-secular Sweden, secular has become a category that bears much more than this, symbolizing ideals such as equality, autonomy, openness, and freedom… Continue reading
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Women’s Voices, Part II: A Review of Kaethe Schwehn’s The Gospel of Salome
What Schwehn has done in this book is to drastically reimagine Jesus’ story and insert Salome into it for his whole childhood, up until the start of his public ministry. Needless to say, in what I am going to write,… Continue reading
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O Come, O Come: Extending the People of God
Each modification of the hymn serves to amplify the Jewish identity of Jesus, and the varied metaphors speak to God’s redemptive work through Israel, extended through Christians. Joslyn-Siemiatkoski encourages us to “imagine the redemptive landscape as not linear but looping… Continue reading
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A Reflection on the First Sunday of Advent
Thus, I suggest that this Advent, we work on our personal transformation—relying for this not just on ourselves, or even our political leaders, but by turning to God in prayer. Perhaps our transformation won’t be as dramatic as Augustine’s, but… Continue reading
