Scriptures

Mark 12.18-27

Deuteronomy 25.5-10

Matthew 27.46

Quotes

… the living can assist the spirits of the dead by keeping their names present on earth, thus providing them with ongoing contact with the living.

Jeffrey H. Tigay, JPS Torah Commentary: Deuteronomy, p 231

The house of Israel is not guaranteed in and through patriarchal structures, but through the promise 
and faithfulness of Israel’s powerful life giving God.

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, In Memory of Her, p 145

God was merely an 
idea dropped into our world in order to fulfill a task. God was introduced into the world on our terms in order to resolve a problem rather than expressing a lived reality. The result is a God who simply justifies our beliefs and helps us sleep comfortably at night. God is brought into the picture only when we face a problem of some kind that doesn’t lend itself to a solution by other means.

Peter Rollins, Insurrection, p 13-14

It’s really ugly, but so beautiful.

Scriptures

Mark 12.1-12

Isaiah 5.1-8

Psalm 118.22-25

2 Samuel 12.1-7

Quotes

And there upon I beheld a 
large, wild horse whose colors were orange and blue. He rose to a height of 3,520 cubits. And there upon I beheld a 
large, wild horse whose colors were orange and blue. He rose to a height of 3,520 cubits. He bore upon his chest, back, and shoulders the number 15. Many reviled the young horse, but alas many more praised him. Those who championed his cause often knelt upon one knee, while placing their fisted hand to the front of their head.

Beliar was angry with Isaiah, 
and dwelled in the heart of King Manasseh, and he sawed him in two with a saw.

Ascension of Isaiah 5.1

Prophets did not plead for well-behaved, conforming, good, domesticated boys and girls; their particular gift was to 
throw a sudden light on people in which they could see who they actually were.

Paul W. Pruyser, “Nathan and David: A Psychological Footnote