Memories of the spring snow that halted planting
Some awful weather events are etched in the minds of farmers and can't be removed.
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Some awful weather events are etched in the minds of farmers and can't be removed.
<p>We were all slaves to sin before Jesus came to take away our sin and purchase our freedom through His death. No matter what we have been enslaved to in our lives, Jesus offers freedom; Jesus is our ultimate jubilee. Instead of just offering us freedom once every 50 years, Christ gave us eternal freedom through His death and resurrection.</p>
COVID-19, rightly understood, is a crisis of ecology. It is also a crisis of hermeneutics, much of it traceable to the “geologic fault” that Wendell Berry exposes in “the mentality of institutional religion.”
Is the pandemic also a crisis of hermeneutics, a world revealed with respect to how we interpret texts and relate to the world?
How does resting the land work in modern-day Israel where, even during the other six years, many farm families live hand to mouth?