For my birthday a few years ago my daughter gave me a tiny "widow's mite" that was made famous in Mark 12 for this week. A lepton was the smallest denomination of currency in Jesus's day. A footnote in my Bible at Mark 12:42 explains that…
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Walter Brueggemann is the author of over one hundred books and numerous scholarly articles. He taught at Eden Theological Seminary (1961–1986) and Columbia Theological Seminary (1986–2003). He is currently William Marcellus McPheeters professor emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia.
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