I guess it looks like I'm not really trying to be a blogger. It's about time I got back on the task.
As for my most recent post about Elijah, I accept the comments saying I'm overstating my case. If I have implied some limits on the grace available to Elijah or the rest of us, I should not have done that. God's grace, freely given, is a boundless wellspring. My point is that in my previous readings of this story, I have assumed a narration sympathetic to Elijah. However, as I reconsidered the text, I was inclined to reject that previous reading. The story lacks praise for Elijah's actions. If that is wrong, show me where I should read the narration as claiming his acts are praiseworthy.
About Me

- Mike Broadway
- Mike hopes to see the world turned upside down through local communities banding together for social change, especially churches which have recognized the radical calling to be good news to the poor, to set free the prisoners and oppressed, and to become the social embodiment of the reign of God on earth as it is in heaven.
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