Tag «Hermeneutics»

HERmeneutics

Churches have always been influenced by the values of the cultures that surround them. For instance, the city of Corinth was known for its immorality, and it’s no surprise that immorality had also crept into the church (1 Corinthians 5). Today, our culture highly values the equality of men and women, and thus the message …

My First Lesson In Hermeneutics

My first lesson in hermeneutics came when I was about 8-years-old in Citizen’s Drug Store in Chester, WV. I had stopped in the drugstore on my way home from school to buy some bubble gum and opposite the bubble gum, in the same aisle, was a “Tonka truck.” When I was a boy, I never …

A Queer Hermeneutic

The dictionary definition of the word, “queer” is simply “strange,” “odd,” or “unusual.” However, in the latter part of the 20th century, the term, “queer” was used in a pejorative sense as an insult to homosexuals. But that was then, and this is now.  And today, the term is embraced by the homosexual community and has …