by Molly T. Marshall | Dec 23, 2011 | Opinion
I never played Mary in the Christmas pageant, probably because I could not sit in wordless contemplation! Indeed, many little girls prefer to be an angel because at least an angel gets to do something. Sitting in blue and white in calm repose (as if long travel and...
by Molly T. Marshall | Dec 1, 2011 | Opinion
Pleadingly, the prophet Isaiah writes: “O that you would tear open the heavens and come down …” (64:1). If writing today, he might put it this way: we desperately need you to show up, O God! This reading from the Hebrew Bible for the First Sunday of...
by Molly T. Marshall | Jun 30, 2011 | Opinion
I think I have been looking for the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship (CBF) all my life. Little did First Baptist Church Muskogee know that allowing girls to carry the Bible in the Vacation Bible School procession might give them ideas about opening it – or consider that...
by Molly T. Marshall | Dec 23, 2010 | Opinion
Children signal the true state of reality. Healthy, happy children reveal civil arrangements that provide services to those who have no choice in the matter; starving, abandoned children give evidence that the ecology of economics, politics and environment is...
by Molly T. Marshall | Oct 20, 2010 | Opinion
Jeremiah instructs those being sent into exile: “But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you … for in its welfare you will find your welfare” (Jeremiah 29:7). Surely this is a statement of prophetic imagination; even while displaced, the people...
