It has been a long time since my last post in this series - three months in fact, which is shocking! Many apologies about that. The truth is... I just got bogged down in all the befuddling language, which is sometimes a bizarre mix of flowery and threatening. I didn't really get it. The autumn [...]
Considering we had a verse from this book of the Bible on the front of our wedding order of service, and considering that I did a reading from this book at a wedding I attended at the weekend, I don't know as much about it as I should! I know there's a lot of metaphor [...]
As a young woman, I could not have been more bored or uninspired by Ecclesiastes. Reading it this time through, I can appreciate it a bit more. I used to think the writer was just like Eeyore. But now I can see some hard won wisdom in it, and I appreciate that the writer is [...]
Our daughter is named, in part, after this book of the Bible. I loved the name Sophia because of Sophia (meaning wisdom) in The Shack. Nathan's favourite book of the Bible is Proverbs, which means wisdom, and Sophia means wisdom. Our theological college principle once said that Nathan and I get to the same place [...]
Rev Poppy 