Author's note: Context plays an important role in how the term "queer" is employed here. This word has a history of being used as a slur and could offend some people. However, as language evolves, ...

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"Jesus got into a boat and sat down, and the whole crowd stood along the shore” (Matt 13:2). Jer 1:1, 4-10; Mt 13:1-9 The setting of Jesus’ parables in Matthew 13 is itself a parable. Jesus chooses as ...

A new book immerses us in the strange, subversive logic of his financial parables. When students in my Old Testament courses contrast the allegedly messy world of the first testament with the ...