What do we do with the imprecatory Psalms? Beloved Old Testament professor Russ Meek explains the unexpected ways that praying along with difficult Psalms can bring healing. We are happy to link his recent article for The Gospel Coalition.
Nope, It Don’t Mean Vanity: Abel and the Meaning of “Hebel” in Ecclesiastes
I started to study Ecclesiastes because I thought I found in it a kindred spirit who, like me, had thrown up his hands and given up on faith and life, who had accepted the meaninglessness of these years on planet Earth and was simply waiting out the time until death would free him. What I found instead—with the help of that former mentor I mentioned—was a path through life that doesn’t involve the bottom of a pill bottle.
Levirate Marriage: Why Tamar is More Righteous than Judah in Genesis 38
Mourning with Jephthah's Daughter
Russ Meek returns to consider once again the strange, sad story of Jepthah’s Daughter (Judges 11). He writes, “Jephthah’s daughter… gives readers an opportunity to enter into remembrance by retelling her story, and it encourages us to sit in mourning with her by recounting her own grief and the establishment of a mourning ceremony in Israel.”
