by Anne Hamilton | Dec 23, 2024 | Abraham, Covenant, Leviathan, Moses, peace, Phinehas
When we constantly scrub up the behaviour of our faith heroes so that their actions almost always appear irreproachable, sooner or later we’re going to paint God as the villain. That’s inevitable when someone or something other than the Lord becomes an idol. We...
by Anne Hamilton | Dec 12, 2024 | Covenant, David, faithline, mantle
When I was first examining the poetic structure of John’s gospel and realised it is designed to reveal the passing on of different mantles to the followers of Jesus, I was startled. With each subsequent revelation, I felt I should be less surprised—but instead I was...
by Anne Hamilton | Dec 5, 2024 | Abraham, abuse, Covenant, David, faithline, mantle, Melchizedek
Some years ago, after I finished a tertiary creative writing course, I was asked for feedback. I wrote a scathing letter about the Christian fantasy elective, summing up my criticism of it as a subject designed by a pair of seventeen-year-old males who thought they...
by Anne Hamilton | Nov 29, 2024 | Covenant, David, faithline, mantle
David’s decision at Ziklag—to use the ephod as mediated by the priest Abiathar to choose between keeping his multiple covenants with the House of Saul or else rescuing the families of his men—was the result of a double-bind dilemma. He got himself into an ethical...
by Anne Hamilton | Nov 21, 2024 | Covenant, David, faithline, mantle, repentance
Remember that eulogy David proclaimed over himself before he died? Theologically suspect—because it ignored divine grace and basically says God rewarded him for being righteous. We should know better than to trust any eulogy to give us a full picture of a person’s...
