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I have written this book in response to an invitation of my mentors, The Rainbow Spirit Elders, who wrote, 'Abraham, the peacemaker, respected the peoples of the land. We ask the same. Abraham recognised the God of the land. We ask the same. Abraham and the peoples of the land shared mutual blessings. We ask the same.' (Rainbow Spirit Theology 1997, p. 85)My goal in this book is to follow the Abraham trail through the legends of Genesis and be...

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During the course of my life I have wondered about the many portrayals of God I have encountered-everything from my childhood memories to my experiences with nature, from a doctrinal deity to an ecological spider. As I reflect on my experiences of this elusive reality, I wonder and wonder again. And I am still dancing with my doubts. Wonder for me, however, is more than simply 'wondering about' a subject. For me, wonder reflects a deep impulse...

Norm Habel is an Australian, an Earth child and a Lutheran who has survived accusations of heresy many times in his life.Why on Earth are you still a Lutheran? is not quite an autobiography. After all, Habel is many more things than a Lutheran " a family man, a social justice advocate, an amateur ecologist and a poet " but still a Lutheran. The scenes from his experiences are not an effort to define being a Lutheran in any official or unoffici...

Like many in the mainline churches, the author was encouraged to read the Bible through a single, safe, traditional lens, ensuring that the truth of the Bible could be discovered only through that way of interpreting the text. The book tells the story of what happens when other lenses appear, other ways of engaging the text, other fresh ways of connecting the text to its origins, its people and its context.  These other ways involve not only t...

Where can Wisdom be found? Job 28.12. Wisdom is usually associated with profound knowledge acquired over time. In ancient times, however, wisdom was also discerned as a force or factor of nature. Wisdom was not only found in human minds but also in God's creation. The wise of biblical timesas distinct from prophets, priests and kingswere tantamount to the scientists of their day. And like scientists, they had a way of discerning wisdom in crea...