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Pastor Katy has enjoyed ministry at New Covenant since 2010, where the church has solidified its community focus. She now works at Capital CFO plus as the Non Profit Director. All opinions expressed on this blog are her own and do not reflect those of Capital CFO plus. Prior to that she studied both Theology and Christian Formation at Princeton Theological Seminary. She also served as an Assistant Chaplain at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital and as the Christian Educational Coordinator at Bethany Presbyterian at Bloomfield, NJ.
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"Publisher after publisher turned down A Wrinkle in Time," L'Engle wrote, "because it deals overtly with the problem of evil, and it was too difficult for children, and was it a children's or an adult's book, anyhow?" The next year it won the prestigious John Newbery Medal.
Tolkien states in the foreword to The Lord of the Rings that he disliked allegories and that the story was not one.[66] Instead he preferred what he termed "applicability", the freedom of the reader to interpret the work in the light of his or her own life and times.
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Karoline Lewis (pp. 20-21 of her “John: Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries,” which I was able to get online from the public library via Hoopla) notes that John 1:18 really says that the only begotten (Son not being part of the original Greek), who is at home at the bosom of the Father, who makes God known. This bosom indicates extraordinary tenderness and intimacy, and represents the God who, like a mother, provides all that is needed for sustenance and for life of Jesus and of believers, who are children of God. (The 1750s rise of anatomy, making the female body on object to be studied, and of pornography, sexualizing the female body, made “bosom” loaded in ways that were then not considered appropriate for understanding God; hence the Charles-and-Mary-Lamb style translations today.)
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Karoline Lewis (pp. 20-21 of her “John: Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries,” which I was able to get online from the public library via Hoopla) notes that John 1:18 really says that the only begotten (Son not being part of the original Greek), who is at home at the bosom of the Father, who makes God known. This bosom indicates extraordinary tenderness and intimacy, and represents the God who, like a mother, provides all that is needed for sustenance and for life of Jesus and of believers, who are children of God. (The 1750s rise of anatomy, making the female body on object to be studied, and of pornography, sexualizing the female body, made “bosom” loaded in ways that were then not considered appropriate for understanding God; hence the Charles-and-Mary-Lamb style translations today.)
Thank you, for your prayers. This is especially so true.