Last Sunday I quoted Scot McKnight’s comment that familiarity with the Bible is a “wonderful problem.” Perhaps wonderful because it still means we’re reading God’s word to us; problematic because we may become too confident in our understanding, especially when the lectionary gives us texts as familiar as this week’s, in which Jacob wrestles an angel an…
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