Voluntary Chaos

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

When God started creating, He chose to abdicate control.  Genesis 1:1  Skip Moen paraphrase When – “Bereshit, ‘in the beginning,’ describes not the clarities of origin and cause, but the potentialities of purpose.”[1]  So writes Avivah Zornberg, reflecting on Rashi’s comment on creation.  Potentialities demand alternatives.  Things might not work out as we expect, and…

Fundamentally

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth  Genesis 1:1 NASB In the beginning – Did you realize that the very first word in the Hebrew Bible has been the subject of intense theological interpretation rather than translation?  You might have noticed that something was amiss when the JPS translation (1985) reads, “When…