Quotidian Grace

Modern-day Samaritans celebrating Shauvoth on Mount Gezirim In Nehemiah we read of the enmity between the Samaritans--especially their ...

I meant to post about Lesson 6 which covers chapter 5 of Nehemiah but life got in the way as I was preparing this lecture! The theme of th...

Now that I am close to my goal I'm having the most fun ever buying a new wardrobe--from the inside out. I have lost 3 sizes and now happ...

This week we are reading chapters 4 and 6 of the book of Nehemiah. It may strike you as odd to skip over chapter 5, but the themes of chapte...

I chose to do Weight Watchers online instead of attending meetings and it worked really well for me. Years ago I did attend WW meetings,  ...

The Eastern Gate of Jerusalem A number of years ago I took a course in Biblical Interpretation through the Austin Seminary extension pro...

I usually shy away from blogging about personal stuff, but I'm going to make an exception by special request. Robin Craig--you asked f...

Here's a link to the podcast of my BSD lecture yesterday on Lesson 3: A Burden of the Work of Rebuilding which covers Nehemiah 2: 1-...

This week's lesson covers Nehemiah 2:1-10. Since I'm giving the lecture tomorrow I don't want to repeat it here, so inste...

Calling all Liturgical Mysteries fans! The latest book in the series, The Treble Wore Trouble , is now available! This is a quasi-revi...

The prophet Jeremiah said that the Jews would spend 70 years in exile before the Lord would permit them to return to Jerusalem. Inquirin...

Our daughter is expecting a second child in February so there has been a lot of discussion around the family about names for the baby. Sin...

                                                                                 1 By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept whe...

This summer the pastors at our church are preaching a series on the Psalms. Each Sunday a church member has been asked to write and read an ...

  Although the title sounds polemical, Ross Douthat's book is actually a thorough, thoughtful and scholarly study of the ways in wh...

I'm in a nostalgic mood this morning thinking about Holy Week services of my past.  I grew up in a Presbyterian church in San Ant...

Yes, sharp-eyed Gentle Readers, the title of this book is Revelation s  not Revelation. In this short book, Princeton professor of relig...

Behind the Beautiful Forevers is the most disturbing book I have read in a long time. Although it reads like a well-written novel, ...

Judah P. Benjamin Some of you long-time Gentle Readers of QG will recall that in those rare times when El Jefe is not dazzling his clie...