A GOD WHO HIDES—several Old Testament writers use the term. And obviously it is a great theme in Job as well (13:24). The writers of the Psalms, the prophet Isaiah … it is the common experience of God’s people ever since the Garden of Eden, where we hid ourselves from God. At the risk of…
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A Pretty Nurse is Selling Poppies from a Tray
TO QUOTE THE BEATLES’ enigmatic lyric about the young lady selling flowers from a shelter in the middle of the roundabout, “though she feels as if she’s in a play, she is anyway” (Penny Lane, Lennon-McCartney, 1967). Sometimes we also forget we are in a play. But, to quote another, somewhat earlier British poet, each…