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Leviticus 19:19; Deuteronomy 22:9-11 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary Lev. 19: 19 You shall keep my statutes. You shall not let your animals breed with a different kind; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed; nor shall you put on a garment made of two different materials. Deut. 22:9-11 You shall not sow your vineyard…
Genesis 30:31-43 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary Jacob said, “You shall not give me anything; if you will do this for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it: 32 let me pass through all your flock today, removing from it every speckled and spotted sheep and every black lamb, and the spotted and speckled…
Genesis 7:11, 8:1-3a Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. 1 But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals…
Genesis 3:14-15 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary 14 The Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you among all animals and among all wild creatures; upon your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life. 15 I will put enmity between you and the…
Genesis 2:15 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary 15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. Wendell Berry has a book of essays entitled “What Are People For?”, which is a provocative question. Genesis 2:15 is one place where we find a glimmer of an…
Genesis 2:19-20 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary So out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to…
Genesis 1:22, 28 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary 22 God blessed [fish and birds], saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 28 God blessed humankind, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the…
Genesis 1:14-19 Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary And God said, “Let there be lights in the dome of the sky to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the dome of the sky to give light upon…
Genesis 1:3 – Creation Care / Science & Preaching
A Science & Religion Commentary Genesis 1:3 3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. Even some reputable scientists seem to support speaking in this fashion. The astro-physicist Robert Jastrow famously described 20th century discoveries in astrophysics this way: “For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power…
Psalm 68:1-10, 32-35
Easter 7A
Regular readers of my commentaries here on the CEP website know that I generally frown upon the Lectionary’s tendency to delete certain portions of passages. Usually the stuff the RCL skips over pertains to judgment and the like but since we cannot get a fully rounded picture of God’s views toward sin and evil without…
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