How does one put words a vision of a world in which peace and compassion had become the truest laws of nature? That is the work given by God to Isaiah – putting language to the depth of shalom that is coming, a picture of creation as it will be when the project of salvation is...
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Advent 1 – A Vision of Shalom (Peace)
In this first week of Advent – the season of preparation for Christ’s coming – we turn to an early oracle of the prophet Isaiah in which recounts a vision of God’s coming salvation and the blessings of peace: For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He...
Advent 2014, Part 4: The Gift of Peace and Rest
Every December the decorations return – banners with doves, cards declaring “Peace on Earth”… And yet every year the headlines never change: hardship, loss, injustice… How do we come to terms with the contradiction? Is the biblical promise that God’s shalom (peace, rest, wholeness) is taking over creation to be believed? Or is it (as it often...