Blogging Through the Seasons

Boaz is perhaps one of the least likely folks to find in the lineage of the Savior. He was, after all, the son of a woman who was not just a cultural outsider, but technically also a woman of ill-repute. His father, Salmon, was a surprising character for having taken...

I have always been so entertained by the story of Rahab. A local, working woman of Jericho becomes a covert operations mastermind – could be the next blockbuster film. In all seriousness, this story jumps out to me each time I read through Israel’s conquest because of...

Why Tamar? Why do we find her name in Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus? She lived in a society where a woman’s standing and safety in the family and the community was dependent on her ability to produce children. Her world was controlled by men. Tamar was a “heathen”...

Judah said to his brothers, “What will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood? Come let’s sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him; after all, he is our brother, our own flesh and blood.” Genesis 37:26-27 This is just the first of the...

The author John Green says that, “the universe is not a wish-granting factory,” but I think it is only human to want it to be. How much simpler could life be if we could wish for things to go our way? Wish for that job, for a family member to get better, for life to...

I imagine Isaac wondered why his friends’ parents were so young and his own mother and father seemed so very old. Abraham would have told the story of how God had promised them a son who would be the father of many nations. Many years passed by and nothing seemed to...