Quiet in Job's Silence

What I read

A word about ordinary life. I think about this passage in the kitchen and on the train, almost never in a pew. I have come to suspect that is not accidental.（使徒行伝 28:10）

This is where I stopped. I could not go forward, so I stayed with the same few lines for a long time. I have come to think the staying was the point.（ローマ人への手紙 8:30）

• I stopped here in the middle of a read-through, and wrote from the stopping.
• A by-product of sermon preparation, reworked into something readable.

Let me set the terms. This is not an argument about doctrinal correctness. It is one reader's account of what the text can be made to yield. I am going to leave the ending open on purpose.

• I stopped here in the middle of a read-through, and wrote from the stopping.
• How I finally made peace with a passage I avoided for years.
• Notes from reading a canonical and a non-canonical text next to each other.