{"id":2508,"date":"2021-05-31T10:03:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2508"},"modified":"2021-05-31T10:05:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T09:05:01","slug":"come-out-my-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/05\/31\/come-out-my-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Come out, my people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu\/texts.php?id=205\" target=\"_blank\">next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary<\/a>, the 1 Samuel passage, the people want God to let them have a king &#8211; like the other nations. Despite them getting a rather bleak portrait of what they are letting themselves in for, they insist, and God gives in, and Saul is made king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wes Howard-Brook points out that there&#8217;s a constant tussle in the Bible between the religion of &#8217;empire&#8217; and the religion of &#8216;creation&#8217; (which is not over yet BTW). He has written a book about this, <em>&#8216;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/1570758921\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" target=\"_blank\">Come out my people&#8217;<\/a><\/em>. I&#8217;ve only just started it, and it&#8217;s waiting for me to have a chance to get into it properly. I&#8217;m looking forward to it &#8211; it sounds like a thesis that could make sense of a lot of stuff. And it seems to me that this passage from Samuel represents this same tussle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In next Sunday&#8217;s Lectionary, the 1 Samuel passage, the people want God to let them have a king &#8211; like the other nations. Despite them getting a rather bleak portrait of what they are letting themselves in for, they insist, and God gives in, and Saul is made king. Wes Howard-Brook points out that there&#8217;s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/05\/31\/come-out-my-people\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Come out, my people&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2508\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}