Tag Archives: Holocaust
Sermon: Job’s wife was right!
Reading Job through the Holocaust we can see that we should not accept the bad from God’s hands as well as the good. It would be unfaithful to accept a god who conspired with ha-satan to torment Job, a God who ‘sent’ the evils of the holocaust. Job’s wife is right; Job should charge God with wrongdoing; he should curse the God who has sent him evil. Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, Big Brother, Book of Job, evil, Holocaust, Job 1:1 2:1-10, Shoah, theodicy
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Sermon: Why is Esther in the Bible?
The Book of Esther is a counter-narrative to that. Life is complicated, and while our religion and our scriptures can provide us with some explanations, there are times when our questions remain unanswered. Continue reading
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Tagged Book of Esther, Esther, Holocaust, Psalm 124, Shoah, survival literature, women in the bible
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