By Katie Wrisley Shelby I’ve never succeeded in quite wrapping my mind around how atrocities such as the Holocaust or the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII happened. How could entire countries be complicit in evil of […]
Category: Mercy
Raising Hell*
Editors’ note: This post was originally part of Theological Shark Week V: Holy Hell?! Daily Theology Explores the Afterlife in October 2013. As a child, I was fascinated by one part of the Apostles’ Creed: […]
Vulnerable Mercy: Sharing the Mind of Christ
At times I’ve wondered what it would have been like to be on the receiving end of one of Paul’s epistles. I imagine a variety of responses: the flurry of excitement and anticipation over what […]
Believing and Acting with Mercy in 1 John
At first glance, the search for mercy in the Johannine letters ends quickly. Of the three letters attributed (almost certainly inaccurately) to the apostle John, the second refers to mercy in its opening salutation of […]
The Gospel, Mercy, and Chemotherapy
The first time I walked into the “chemo room”, I wanted out. I was there to support my friend, but he was far calmer than I. Let’s just say that going into a doctor’s office […]
“How Can We Keep From Singing?”: Mercy and the Book of Psalms
There is no human practice or ritual more universal than making music. Before children start talking, they are singing—babbling, humming, tapping and banging on tables, dancing. We are music makers as much as we are […]
Vacation Bible School: The Merciful God of David
Mercy is borne in conditions of brokenness and is itself a breaking open of the self. God’s mercy and the human mercy that it inspires appear repeatedly throughout the bible and figure famously in the […]
Creation: A Merciful Conspiracy
The Book of Genesis opens with the story of creation told in two different ways. The first, Genesis 1 – 2: 3, tends to be better known, and it quickly works into a nice pattern: […]
Vacation Bible School: Mercy Edition
Vacation Bible School: July 6 – August 20 Join Daily Theology throughout July and August for Vacation Bible School: Mercy Edition. We’ll be preparing for the upcoming Year of Mercy by exploring the theme […]
Blind in the Light of the Sun
“GOD IS NOTHING BUT MERCY AND LOVE.” – St. Therese of Lisieux The video at the bottom of the page recently made the rounds on social media. I found it so moving that I re-watched […]
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