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The way that delight expresses itself is by talking about it day and night—in other words, ceaselessly."
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The attitude the psalm commends involves delighting in Yhwh’s teaching—especially (we might add) when its story seems irrelevant or it takes a different stance from us.
That is the moment when studying Scripture becomes interesting, significant, and important. We then delight in it.
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And between liberals who imagine God to be irrelevant to sociology and conservatives who unwittingly use a notion of God for social reasons because they do not see how the two belong together, there is little to choose."
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not understood to be precisely the source of social oppression. Indeed, a case can be made that unprophetic conservatives did not take God seriously enough to see that our discernment of God has remarkable sociological implications.
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As a result, social radicalism has been like a cut flower without nourishment, without any sanctions deeper than human courage and good intentions.
Conversely, it has been the tendency in other quarters to care intensely about God, but uncritically, so that the God of well-being and good order is
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and compassion but to be largely uninterested in the freedom of God. Indeed, it has been hard for liberals to imagine that theology mattered, for all of that seemed irrelevant. And it was thought that the question of God could be safely left to others who still worried about such matters.
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“Blame the immigrants! Blame the foreigners! Our country first!""
-Chris Wright, The Story of God Bible Commentary: Exodus
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"[Pharaoh] is clever, certainly, as he turns his people’s natural ethnocentric dislike of foreigners (see Gen 43:32) into outright blame and fear—a tactic well practiced by many governments throughout history, horribly and blatantly also today.
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link to the episode: pod.link/1690452731/e...
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