Study of the scriptures will bracket the Lambeth conference. All spoke out of their biblical faith, their church responsibilities and their commitment to building a healthier world. Their remarks illustrated some of the difficult points at which scripture intersects with the world-power, poverty, sexuality, war. We have discovered the love of God that knows no bounds.
Prayer lifts our obstacles.
I am encouraged. The drama really brought it out. Between Jacob and Esau there is a division about something apparently non-negotiable . . . He both challenges Jacob's tangled, wrongly complex identity and heals it, opening a way for him and all his people . . . God blesses through wrestling, wounding, naming, and facing.