A few months ago I began listening closely to the lyrics of the Laura Mvula song “Diamonds.” “Sometimes the grass ain’t greener on the other side,” Mvula sings. “But you’ve got diamonds under your feet.” These lyrics remind me of a saying sometimes attributed to James Oppenheim: “The foolish seeks happiness in the distance. The […]
Reading: Unprotected Texts and the legacy of Paul
I’m in two reading groups this fall. One has just begun reading Unprotected Texts by Jennifer Wright Knust, an attempt to push Hebrew and Christian scholarship on desire, human sexuality, and the body out of biblical studies journals and into the church library. The tone of the book is much lighter than you might expect! I think our […]
