Daily Archives: August 31, 2012

A Powerful Closing Night at the Republican National Convention

Posted on August 31, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

I just finished watching the last night of the 2012 Republican National Convention.  Although the talk today is mostly about the speech by Clint Eastwood (who conversed with an empty chair) and the speech by Mitt Romney himself, I thought … Continue reading →

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Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father 15

Posted on August 31, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

I finished Barack Obama’s Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.  In my latest reading, Obama talked about introducing Michelle to his family—-on both his father’s side (in Africa) and his mother’s side (in the U.S.).  Barack’s … Continue reading →

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Completing Jacob and the Divine Trickster

Posted on August 31, 2012 by jamesbradfordpate

I finished John Anderson’s Jacob and the Divine Trickster: A Theology of Deception and YHWH’s Fidelity to the Ancestral Promise in the Jacob Cycle. Anderson’s argument appears to be that God supported Jacob’s deception of people and Laban’s deception of … Continue reading →

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