This page pools together posts that are specifically analysing Bible passages, people, or topics that relate to hope. Some of these dive deep, but others are more beginner-friendly, but they’re all here to help you orient yourself as you read the Bible.
Most of these are essays. If you’re looking for reflections and mini-studies based on the Bible, I’d recommend browsing my sister-site Faith in Grey Places.
- So what if Sarah didn’t wait on God? Choosing to act is not a sin.
- 1 Corinthians 15 for beginners: Part 4: transforming the perishable so as to inherit the imperishable (1 Cor 15:44-58)
- 1 Corinthians 15 for beginners: Part 3: resurrection is about the body – but what does that actually mean? (1 Cor 15:35-43)
- 1 Corinthians 15 for beginners: Part 2: resurrection as both a present and future event (1 Cor 15:12-34)
- 1 Corinthians 15 for beginners: Part 1: the legal case for Jesus’s resurrection from the dead (1 Cor 15:1-11)
- Resurrection is the vindication of the body – and the only complete answer to rape culture
- sometimes I wonder… if Rachel Jankovic understands scandal (a response to her criticism of Kaitlin Shetler’s viral poem)
- Handle with care: how to approach Mark 9:42-49
- Who breaks in and does the washing up? Strange stories and Easter
- Revelation 22 for beginners (with illustrations from Harry Potter)
- Is the One True Love biblical? On hope, choice and responsibility
- Year of Hell, Remember Nothing, & The Wish: lessons on hope
