5 posts tagged “kingsolver”
This is my podcast, same as below. I'm using a link from http://www.archive.org/ because Vox is being difficult about the podcast being an enclosure so that podcatchers can catch it. You may end up with two copies of this. I'm sorry, but this seems the best thing to do. The podcast, as shown in the previous post, is at http://www.archive.org/details/revmerrillramble/. Revmerrill's Ramble
A podcast at last! Definitely a ramble this time. Sorry for the hum. It occurs when my stereo is plugged into the sound card. I forgot to unplug it.
Kingsolver wonders if the American disconnect from the land has fostered the skepticism about and the hostility toward evolution. I am a Bible reader. I keep telling myself I don't read it enough, but I know there is muchabout farming and even more about livestock. The Gospel of Mark is a long exposition of the sewing of the seed, on the path, among thorns, on rocky soil and good soil. I can't think how anyone would understand this parable if they didn't understand about growing anything. We talk in seminary on how Jesus as good shepherd does not resonate with urban dwellers. To say "The Lord is my shepherd," doesn't work for a lot of folks. Yet the land continues to be central. Jesus talked to people who had lost their land and without it they had lost their identity and probably any hope of sustaining themselves and their family. The kingdom is more than a spiritual place and the great by and by. It is a place of food and drink and a place where everybody can sustain themselves. That means land. That means water for irregation and for fishing. That also means a tax structure that doesn't bankrupt people.
