Things Hidden Since the Foundations of the World by René Girard | Notes & Summary

First Impressions on Matthew 11:2–15 - Without Authority

This is the beginning step of my sermon work on the Gospel text. for the third Sunday of Advent, December 14, 2025.

The Way to Glory

Exhibition: The Way to Glory (Matthew 19:28; 20:20–28; Mark 10:35–45; Luke 22:24–27). Featuring works of art by Master Mateo, Quinten Massys and Salvador Dalí. Commentaries by Martin Warner.

Five Manifestos for the Beautiful World: The Alchemy Lecture 2023

The Alchemy Lecture 2023

Epiphany • Ephesians 3:1–12 • January 6, 2013 - Concordia Theology

By Francis C. Rossow Comments on the Text Lulled either by the familiarity of our text or by its complex sentence structure, we may not at first be aware of the surprise—even the shock—it contains. Verse 6 drops a bomb: “This mystery is that through the gospel the Gentiles are heirs together with Israel, members […]

The Cloud of Unknowing

The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is written as guide from a teacher to a student, with the message that God cannot be understood via reason or intellect, but only through love: “By love may He be gotten and holden, but never through thought.” To achieve this goal, the text recommends cultivation of two mental states: “The cloud of forgetting”, and “the cloud of unknowing”.

The Word of Life A Theology of Johns Gospel (Craig R. Koester) (z-lib.org).pdf

056. Ephesians 3:1-12

Chapel Sermon by Joel Okamoto from Ephesians 3:1-12 on Wednesday, January 3, 2018.

Studying the Text of 1 Corinthians 10:23-11:1 - Without Authority

Working notes from preparing to preach on the epistle text for the third week of our Stewardship sermon series, November 23, 2025.

Epiphany • Ephesians 3:1–12 • January 4, 2015 - Concordia Theology

By Joel P. Okamoto Notes on the Pericope The Old Testament people knew that God had promised life and salvation to all nations (e.g., see Genesis 12:3 and Isaiah 60:1–6, the appointed OT lesson), but they did not know how he would do that. God made this clear through his Son and in the witness of the apostles. Paul’s […]

When We're Born We Forget Everything: A Memoir

From the creator of the internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter project Girls in Trouble, a memoir following her journey from a secular Jewish childhood to becoming a modern queer woman owning ancient teachings and finding her own meanings in them, refracted through feminist interpretations of the lives of Biblical women.“Alicia Jo Rabins writes as if she’s in conversation with the divine itself. . . .This isn’t merely a book to be read—it’s a scripture for the searching heart, a reminder that the border between the human and the holy is, and always has been, porous.” —Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of NazarethAs a self-described ‘90s suburban high school weirdo, Alicia Jo Rabins spent her time practicing violin and smoking cigarettes behind the mall while secretly dreaming of setting out on a spiritual quest no one around her seemed to understand. She often found herself drawn to the more ritualistic and rigorous Judaism that her parents had abandoned to assimilate and “become American.” In college, a chance meeting led her on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to study rabbinical texts (and play bluegrass fiddle on the street for cash). But that two years of immersing herself in traditional observance was only the start of a journey full of twists and turns.When We’re Born We Forget Everything follows Alicia’s relentless, often embarrassing, sometimes enlightening search for the sacred in everyday life as she tours America playing with a klezmer-punk band, falls in and out of love, scrapes through the initiations of motherhood, and witnesses the beauty—and danger—of mysticism. Rabins braids this personal narrative with the hidden stories of biblical women, uncovering a path of queer identity, feminist awakening, and spiritual self-invention. This lyrical, searching memoir is a meditation on longing, lineage, and what it takes to find meaning in a fractured world.

Waiting Is a Revelation

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 1

1 Corinthians

Lightly dotted blank pages and 130+ elegant hand-lettered gold ink illustrations throughout the full text of books of the Bible invite you to creatively engage with God's Word alongside specific passages.

The hidden ‘rules of the game’ that dictate how we navigate the world | Psyche Videos

How free are we really, if human behaviour embodies the complex, intertwined webs of society and history?