Notes, reflections, songs, and projects from Rev Al Munday.https://almunday.com/enCopyright © 2026 Rev Al MundayRev Al MundayRev Al MundaySun, 01 Nov 2026 15:28:23 GMTAstro RSShttps://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification60https://almunday.com/posts/all-yours-anyway/https://almunday.com/posts/all-yours-anyway/A song by Al Munday.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicworshipRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/benedictus/https://almunday.com/posts/benedictus/A seed song idea by Al Munday.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/come-with-the-fire/https://almunday.com/posts/come-with-the-fire/A song by Al Munday, presented as a draft recording.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicworshipRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/cry-after-burnout/https://almunday.com/posts/cry-after-burnout/A seed song idea by Al Munday.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/friday-at-10-37-am/https://almunday.com/posts/friday-at-10-37-am/A seed song idea by Al Munday.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/my-shepherd-your-voice/https://almunday.com/posts/my-shepherd-your-voice/A song by Al Munday.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicworshipRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/peters-song-2/https://almunday.com/posts/peters-song-2/A seed song idea by Al Munday.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/thursday-at-1-55-pm/https://almunday.com/posts/thursday-at-1-55-pm/A seed song idea by Al Munday.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/tuesday-at-12-29-pm/https://almunday.com/posts/tuesday-at-12-29-pm/A seed song idea by Al Munday.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/magnificat/https://almunday.com/posts/magnificat/A song of Mary’s song: God’s faithful mercy, good news for the poor, and creation welcoming its King.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicworshipmagnificatRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/post-communion-prayer/https://almunday.com/posts/post-communion-prayer/A pop-punkish version of a post communion prayer from common worshipFri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmusicworshipcommunionRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/abiding-is-an-alternative-to-religious-toil/https://almunday.com/posts/abiding-is-an-alternative-to-religious-toil/An outline for an essay drawn from my sermon on Jesus as the true vine in John 15.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTspirituality-and-practiceformationcontemplationRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/atonement-images-carry-anthropological-assumptions/https://almunday.com/posts/atonement-images-carry-anthropological-assumptions/Each atonement model implies a particular account of what is wrong with humanity and what kind of change salvation must bring.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoteriologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/babylon-accumulates-while-new-jerusalem-heals/https://almunday.com/posts/babylon-accumulates-while-new-jerusalem-heals/Babylon tells an account of humanity in which our hope is only in ourselves: high accumulation, high walls.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticseschatologypoliticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/biblical-interpretation-requires-discernment-rather-than-simple-rule-application/https://almunday.com/posts/biblical-interpretation-requires-discernment-rather-than-simple-rule-application/Biblical law is first and foremost wisdom literature: it forms discernment for faithful living rather than offering simple rules to apply mechanically.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/biblical-violence-creates-moral-injury/https://almunday.com/posts/biblical-violence-creates-moral-injury/Violent biblical stories can expose the psychological and spiritual damage caused by celebrating victory through the death of another person.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblehermeneuticsethicsjudgesbiblical-violenceRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/biblical-wisdom-combines-faith-and-reason/https://almunday.com/posts/biblical-wisdom-combines-faith-and-reason/Jesus’ call to be innocent as doves and shrewd as vipers encapsulates the two sides of biblical wisdom ethics.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/biblical-wisdom-contains-internal-tension/https://almunday.com/posts/biblical-wisdom-contains-internal-tension/The Bible is a unified story that leads to Jesus, but it contains multiple voices that interpret, dialogue with, and critique one another by design.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/caring-for-creation-through-delight-rather-than-guilt/https://almunday.com/posts/caring-for-creation-through-delight-rather-than-guilt/Caring for Creation Through Delight Rather Than Guilt. Extracts from Three Visions of Paradise Workbook.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcreationspirituality-and-practicekingdom-of-godRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/christian-critique-should-begin-with-complicity/https://almunday.com/posts/christian-critique-should-begin-with-complicity/A defence of Christianity must directly engage the Church’s complicity in evil and what that means for ecclesiology and soteriology.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticspoliticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/christian-identity-is-already-and-not-yet/https://almunday.com/posts/christian-identity-is-already-and-not-yet/The gospel is carried through the Church even when generations of Christians miss its point; God remains ready to speak to the next generation that will listen.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtheologyidentityeschatologynew-testamentRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/church-hospitality-requires-more-than-inclusion/https://almunday.com/posts/church-hospitality-requires-more-than-inclusion/Tolerance and inclusion are not enough: the Church must foster genuine belonging in order to be fully the Church of Christ.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTecclesiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/churches-are-communities-of-competing-narratives/https://almunday.com/posts/churches-are-communities-of-competing-narratives/A church communicates its theology through space, shared stories and community practices before we consider its worship, churchmanship or preaching.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTecclesiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/creativity-without-building-a-monument-to-ourselves/https://almunday.com/posts/creativity-without-building-a-monument-to-ourselves/Creativity Without Building a Monument to Ourselves. Extracts from Three Visions of Paradise Workbook.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTculturecreativityspirituality-and-practiceRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/daytime-and-sabbath-are-dry-land-in-time/https://almunday.com/posts/daytime-and-sabbath-are-dry-land-in-time/Genesis’ separation of darkness and water offers a way to see daylight and Sabbath as forms of created space: one in the world, the other in time.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studiescreationhermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/difference-is-often-experienced-as-threat/https://almunday.com/posts/difference-is-often-experienced-as-threat/A feminist reading of Genesis 1 shows how difference can be experienced as threat and turned into fear, rejection or control.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTanthropologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/discernment-requires-humility-about-ones-own-reading/https://almunday.com/posts/discernment-requires-humility-about-ones-own-reading/Wisdom may come through unexpected readers and interpretations, so discernment requires humility about our own reading.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTspirituality-and-practiceRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/divine-order-is-knowable-but-not-exhaustively-masterable/https://almunday.com/posts/divine-order-is-knowable-but-not-exhaustively-masterable/Proverbs presents creation as ordered and intelligible, but that order should not be reduced to a deterministic system humans can fully control.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTdoctrine-of-godRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/end-times-politics-can-be-an-eschatology-of-abandonment/https://almunday.com/posts/end-times-politics-can-be-an-eschatology-of-abandonment/Some end-times politics treats catastrophe as inevitable and turns the decisive question into who can escape, survive, or remain protected.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticspoliticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/eternal-life-is-quality-as-well-as-quantity/https://almunday.com/posts/eternal-life-is-quality-as-well-as-quantity/Eternal Life Is Quality as Well as Quantity. Extracts from Three Visions of Paradise Workbook.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTkingdom-of-godsoteriologyspirituality-and-practiceRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/fear-of-the-lord-locates-wisdom-within-covenant-faithfulness/https://almunday.com/posts/fear-of-the-lord-locates-wisdom-within-covenant-faithfulness/In the Genesis 3 and Proverbs material, wisdom is not rejected but subordinated to dependence upon God and expressed through covenant faithfulness.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/fruitfulness-is-relational-rather-than-merely-productive/https://almunday.com/posts/fruitfulness-is-relational-rather-than-merely-productive/Fruitfulness includes encouragement, trust, communal formation, and the creation of conditions in which others can flourish.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTspirituality-and-practiceRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/genesis-3-is-about-more-than-labour-pain/https://almunday.com/posts/genesis-3-is-about-more-than-labour-pain/Genesis 3:16 may be describing the relational and emotional suffering surrounding conception and family life rather than simply predicting the physical pain of childbirth.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studiesgenesishermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/gods-diversity-is-reflected-in-creation/https://almunday.com/posts/gods-diversity-is-reflected-in-creation/Divine unity does not require uniformity. Difference and diversity may be intrinsic to the way God relates to creation.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTdoctrine-of-godRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/gods-joyous-being/https://almunday.com/posts/gods-joyous-being/A reading note on Dallas Willard’s account of divine joy and affection.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTdoctrine-of-godjoyspirituality-and-practiceRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/gods-perfection-includes-relational-openness/https://almunday.com/posts/gods-perfection-includes-relational-openness/The notes on divine perfection raise a tension between immutability and genuine relationship, suggesting that perfection may not mean emotional or relational immobility.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTdoctrine-of-godRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/gods-presence-is-found-among-the-poor/https://almunday.com/posts/gods-presence-is-found-among-the-poor/The vault repeatedly connects Christian perception of God with attention to those who are marginalised, economically poor, or socially excluded.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTdoctrine-of-godRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/grace-turns-graves-into-gardens/https://almunday.com/posts/grace-turns-graves-into-gardens/Christian hope is not simply escape from death or emptiness but God’s ability to transform places of loss into places of life.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtheologyresurrectionhopeworshipRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/human-agency-is-neither-absolute-nor-passive/https://almunday.com/posts/human-agency-is-neither-absolute-nor-passive/The engaged-trust theme offers an anthropology in which humans depend on God’s sovereignty while remaining responsible to resist injustice and participate in change.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTanthropologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/human-beings-are-formed-by-narratives/https://almunday.com/posts/human-beings-are-formed-by-narratives/People and communities receive identity through stories, symbols, histories, and practices rather than through abstract beliefs alone.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTanthropologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/identity-is-received-before-it-is-performed/https://almunday.com/posts/identity-is-received-before-it-is-performed/John’s claim that we are children of God presents belonging as a gift that precedes moral instruction or self-construction.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtheologyidentitynew-testamentjohnRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/jesus-is-lord/https://almunday.com/posts/jesus-is-lord/The confession that Jesus is Lord should reshape public life, church identity, and Christian ideas of power.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTchristologyecclesiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/jesus-is-the-criterion-for-christian-claims-about-victory/https://almunday.com/posts/jesus-is-the-criterion-for-christian-claims-about-victory/Christian claims about power, salvation, and the future should be judged by Jesus.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticseschatologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/judges-is-suspicious-of-charismatic-saviours/https://almunday.com/posts/judges-is-suspicious-of-charismatic-saviours/The book of Judges presents leadership as increasingly corrupted when gifted people are treated as if they can become the saviour of the community.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studiesjudgesleadershipRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/learning-to-attend-to-creation/https://almunday.com/posts/learning-to-attend-to-creation/Questions from the workbook about attention, God’s character, and everyday habits of care.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcreationspirituality-and-practiceRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/leviticus-imagines-god-in-the-neighbourhood/https://almunday.com/posts/leviticus-imagines-god-in-the-neighbourhood/Leviticus makes more sense when read as a practical theology of how an imperfect people can live near a holy God.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studiesleviticustheologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/liturgical-order-communicates-theology/https://almunday.com/posts/liturgical-order-communicates-theology/The placement of words, actions, and declarations in a service can subtly determine whether authority is located in God, the priest, the couple, or the gathered community.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTecclesiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/many-ways-to-understand-the-cross/https://almunday.com/posts/many-ways-to-understand-the-cross/The different theories of atonement are best understood as complementary perspectives on the many-sided meaning of the cross.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoteriologytheologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/marriage-is-communal/https://almunday.com/posts/marriage-is-communal/Marriage should be understood as a public and communal commitment, not merely a private relationship between two people.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtheologyecclesiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/mission-begins-by-listening-to-existing-narratives/https://almunday.com/posts/mission-begins-by-listening-to-existing-narratives/Church planting and revitalisation should attend to the history, symbols, memories, and local stories already present in a place.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmissiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/mission-is-word-and-deed-held-together/https://almunday.com/posts/mission-is-word-and-deed-held-together/Missional action becomes distorted when practical service is detached from its theological meaning, or when proclamation is detached from embodied concern.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmissiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/mission-requires-attention-to-power/https://almunday.com/posts/mission-requires-attention-to-power/The notes on empire, poverty, justice hubs, and marginalised communities suggest that mission must ask who benefits from a church’s activity and whose voice remains unheard.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmissiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/naar-does-not-simply-mean-child/https://almunday.com/posts/naar-does-not-simply-mean-child/The Hebrew term na’ar in Proverbs can refer to a young person, servant, adolescent, or young heir, so translating it simply as child can obscure who the text is addressing.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshebrewhermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/old-testament-anthropology-is-oriented-around-human-function/https://almunday.com/posts/old-testament-anthropology-is-oriented-around-human-function/In the Old Testament material, human identity is expressed not only through what humans are but through their vocation to mediate God’s presence and rule under divine authority.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/parables-must-be-read-through-their-narrative-context/https://almunday.com/posts/parables-must-be-read-through-their-narrative-context/The meaning of a parable is shaped primarily by where it appears in the Gospel’s narrative, including Jesus’ journey, audience, and surrounding conflicts.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/pauline-mission-is-adaptive-without-being-indifferent/https://almunday.com/posts/pauline-mission-is-adaptive-without-being-indifferent/Paul’s methods appear context-sensitive, but the underlying theological purpose remains stable; this distinguishes missionary flexibility from theological compromise.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmissiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/pauls-use-of-habakkuk-reframes-the-problem-of-israel-and-the-nations/https://almunday.com/posts/pauls-use-of-habakkuk-reframes-the-problem-of-israel-and-the-nations/Paul’s use of Habakkuk connects the prophet’s concern about law, sin, and the Gentiles with the argument of Romans.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/play-is-a-sign-of-safety/https://almunday.com/posts/play-is-a-sign-of-safety/Play Is a Sign of Safety. Extracts from Three Visions of Paradise Workbook.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcommunitykingdom-of-godspirituality-and-practiceRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/prepare-for-war-is-not-a-hot-take/https://almunday.com/posts/prepare-for-war-is-not-a-hot-take/“Prepare for war” need not be a novel prophecy or a celebration of violence.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticspoliticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/proverbs-reworks-earlier-wisdom-traditions/https://almunday.com/posts/proverbs-reworks-earlier-wisdom-traditions/Proverbs appears to draw on surrounding ancient Near Eastern wisdom traditions and adapt them within its own theological vision rather than presenting itself as culturally isolated.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/proverbs-trains-discernment-through-internal-tension/https://almunday.com/posts/proverbs-trains-discernment-through-internal-tension/The contradictory voices within Proverbs may be intentionally arranged to prevent mechanical rule application and require wisdom from the reader.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/proverbs-was-not-written-as-a-parenting-manual/https://almunday.com/posts/proverbs-was-not-written-as-a-parenting-manual/The violent sayings about the rod should not be lifted out of their ancient educational context and applied uncritically to modern children.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/receiving-blessing-to-become-a-blessing/https://almunday.com/posts/receiving-blessing-to-become-a-blessing/The workbook connects receiving God’s gifts with offering a foretaste of the kingdom to a community.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmissionkingdom-of-godcommunityRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/recovering-wonder/https://almunday.com/posts/recovering-wonder/The world does not mainly need more spectacular experiences; it needs people who have recovered the ability to pay attention and wonder.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTspirituality-and-practicecultureRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/reparative-interpretation-reads-critically-without-abandoning-the-text/https://almunday.com/posts/reparative-interpretation-reads-critically-without-abandoning-the-text/A reparative reading acknowledges harmful or problematic features in a biblical text while remaining open to discovering value within its cultural and literary complexity.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/ritual-impurity-is-not-the-same-as-moral-sin/https://almunday.com/posts/ritual-impurity-is-not-the-same-as-moral-sin/Leviticus distinguishes ritual states from moral wrongdoing, challenging the assumption that everything described as unclean is automatically sinful.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studiesleviticushermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/salvation-is-not-escape/https://almunday.com/posts/salvation-is-not-escape/Salvation is not escape from creation but reconciliation with God, neighbour, community, and the whole created order.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoteriologycreationRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/salvation-reorders-human-relationships/https://almunday.com/posts/salvation-reorders-human-relationships/Participation in Christ is presented as breaking down hostility and relativising social distinctions, not merely as securing individual forgiveness.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoteriologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/singing-together-is-worship/https://almunday.com/posts/singing-together-is-worship/Worship is more than singing, but singing together remains a powerful way for a divided community to practise unity.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTworshipecclesiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/story-sandwiches-and-creation-structures/https://almunday.com/posts/story-sandwiches-and-creation-structures/The separating-and-filling pattern of Genesis 1 may help readers recognise why biblical stories are often arranged as nested or interrupted narratives.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studiescreationhermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-audacity-of-being-called-gods-children/https://almunday.com/posts/the-audacity-of-being-called-gods-children/The greatness of God’s love is not merely its emotional intensity but the astonishing status it gives: that we should be called children of God.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTtheologyidentitynew-testamentjohnRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-bibles-outsiders-often-understand-the-story-first/https://almunday.com/posts/the-bibles-outsiders-often-understand-the-story-first/Biblical narratives repeatedly use outsiders, women, foreigners, and socially marginalised people to expose what insiders have failed to see.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsgospelRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-church-participates-in-gods-mission-rather-than-owning-it/https://almunday.com/posts/the-church-participates-in-gods-mission-rather-than-owning-it/The idea of missio Dei shifts mission away from institutional expansion and toward participation in what God is already doing.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTmissiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-counterfeit-can-look-like-salvation/https://almunday.com/posts/the-counterfeit-can-look-like-salvation/Scripture often portrays evil as something that resembles salvation: order, security, abundance, technological achievement, and escape from death.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticseschatologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-fool-is-more-than-someone-who-lacks-intelligence/https://almunday.com/posts/the-fool-is-more-than-someone-who-lacks-intelligence/In Proverbs, foolishness is fundamentally a moral and relational refusal of wisdom, not merely an intellectual deficiency.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studiesproverbswisdomRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-gift-of-vulnerability/https://almunday.com/posts/the-gift-of-vulnerability/Becoming fully alive requires a willingness to become vulnerable, because safety and self-protection can prevent genuine growth.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTspirituality-and-practiceRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-gospel-relocates-honour-and-shame/https://almunday.com/posts/the-gospel-relocates-honour-and-shame/Paul’s language of not being ashamed of the gospel suggests a revaluation of status, power, and public honour.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoteriologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-imago-dei-is-a-conspicuous-but-limited-old-testament-theme/https://almunday.com/posts/the-imago-dei-is-a-conspicuous-but-limited-old-testament-theme/The image-of-God language in Genesis 1 is significant but occurs relatively rarely in the Hebrew Bible, raising questions about how central it was to Israelite anthropology.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-imago-dei-undermines-human-hierarchy/https://almunday.com/posts/the-imago-dei-undermines-human-hierarchy/If all people bear God’s image, distinctions of gender, ethnicity, class, and status cannot justify unequal human worth.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTanthropologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-lamb-redefines-what-conquest-means/https://almunday.com/posts/the-lamb-redefines-what-conquest-means/Revelation destabilises the assumption that victory means becoming a stronger Caesar.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticseschatologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-old-testament-does-not-treat-every-leader-as-a-hero/https://almunday.com/posts/the-old-testament-does-not-treat-every-leader-as-a-hero/Biblical narratives often preserve the failures and moral compromises of their leaders instead of turning them into uncomplicated examples to imitate.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studiesold-testamenthermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-parables-reframe-wisdom-as-readiness/https://almunday.com/posts/the-parables-reframe-wisdom-as-readiness/In the parable of the ten virgins, wisdom is not merely intellectual understanding; it is preparedness to act faithfully before the crisis arrives.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-self-is-more-than-one-description/https://almunday.com/posts/the-self-is-more-than-one-description/Psychological, vocational, existential and theological accounts of a person can all be true without reducing someone to a single definition.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTanthropologyidentityphilosophytheologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-spirit-equips-craftsmanship/https://almunday.com/posts/the-spirit-equips-craftsmanship/The workbook connects artistic skill, imagination and practical craft with the Spirit’s gifts.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTcreativitycultureholy-spiritRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-spirits-empowerment-does-not-automatically-legitimate-a-judges-actions/https://almunday.com/posts/the-spirits-empowerment-does-not-automatically-legitimate-a-judges-actions/In Judges, divine empowerment can enable a deliverer to achieve an intended outcome without implying that every choice made by that deliverer is morally approved.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-ten-virgins-as-a-warning-to-jesus-immediate-audience/https://almunday.com/posts/the-ten-virgins-as-a-warning-to-jesus-immediate-audience/The parable of the ten virgins is best read as a warning directed toward Jesus’ contemporary audience, rather than only as a prediction about the church’s future readiness.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbiblebiblical-studieshermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-two-mountains-ask-who-is-sacrificed/https://almunday.com/posts/the-two-mountains-ask-who-is-sacrificed/The two mountains offer a compact biblical diagnostic.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticseschatologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/theories-of-atonement-are-historically-situated/https://almunday.com/posts/theories-of-atonement-are-historically-situated/The development of satisfaction and penal-substitutionary accounts shows how doctrines of salvation are shaped by their cultural and political contexts.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTsoteriologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/who-is-my-neighbour/https://almunday.com/posts/who-is-my-neighbour/Christian ethics should learn from effective altruism’s concern for distant neighbours while resisting its tendency to reduce human value to calculation.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTethicstheologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/wisdom-is-both-divine-gift-and-human-practice/https://almunday.com/posts/wisdom-is-both-divine-gift-and-human-practice/Wisdom appears as rooted in God’s ordering of creation while also requiring human acquisition, interpretation, and disciplined action.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTbible-and-hermeneuticsRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/worship-is-collective-world-making/https://almunday.com/posts/worship-is-collective-world-making/Singing, creativity, and liturgical participation do not merely express belief; they create a shared communal reality and declare what the community considers worthy.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTecclesiologyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/you-are-becoming-not-a-fixed-essence/https://almunday.com/posts/you-are-becoming-not-a-fixed-essence/Human identity is not a static category but an unfolding pattern of commitments, loves, habits and relationships.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTanthropologyidentityphilosophyRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/daring-greatly-wij/https://almunday.com/posts/daring-greatly-wij/Finding parallels between the critic in Roosevelt's famous speech and the wicked one in Psalm 1Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTculturebiblebiblical-interpretationformationdiscipleshipRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/wisdom-can-be-found-in-surprising-places/https://almunday.com/posts/wisdom-can-be-found-in-surprising-places/Wisdom in the Bible is woven throughout creation. We should expect to find wisdom that draws us toward faithfulness in all sorts of places.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTproverbswisdomprophetic-dialoguebiblical-interpretationRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/reading-with-creation-goggles-part-1-separating-and-filling-the-reading-of-genesis-1-that-changes-everything/https://almunday.com/posts/reading-with-creation-goggles-part-1-separating-and-filling-the-reading-of-genesis-1-that-changes-everything/Genesis 1 has a very clear shape, one that is often obscured by our concerns about science, doctrine or culture wars. But what if the essential pattern of separating and filling was as second nature as "in the beginning" or "Let there be light"? How would that change how ordinary people read the Bible?Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTgenesiscreationbiblical-interpretationRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/an-avalanche-of-crumbs-when-jesus-called-a-woman-to-preach/https://almunday.com/posts/an-avalanche-of-crumbs-when-jesus-called-a-woman-to-preach/The story of the Syrophoenician woman is one of the most ignored Gospel stories in our pulpits. Jesus calls a woman a dog. Not because he hated women but because he was activating her leadership. He was calling her to speak prophetically to the gathered people of God. He was calling her to preach.Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTtheologybiblegospel-of-markRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/genesis-21-who-gets-to-laugh-who-gets-to-drink/https://almunday.com/posts/genesis-21-who-gets-to-laugh-who-gets-to-drink/When confronted with difference, which path will we choose? Welcome or rejection?Sun, 08 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://almunday.com/assets/images/blog/beersheba.pngbiblegenesistheologychurchreconciliationRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/the-hell-of-getting-everything-you-want/https://almunday.com/posts/the-hell-of-getting-everything-you-want/Why the promise of AI creation mirrors C.S. Lewis's chilling vision of hell in The Great Divorce.Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://almunday.com/assets/images/blog/base44.pngaireflectionsc-s-lewiscultureRev Al Mundayhttps://almunday.com/posts/why-an-unbiblical-view-of-perfection-makes-christians-into-bigots/https://almunday.com/posts/why-an-unbiblical-view-of-perfection-makes-christians-into-bigots/Diversity in creation is not a flaw. It's a reflection of the good God.Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://almunday.com/assets/images/blog/bluey-perfect.pngtheologyreflectionsdiversitycreationRev Al Munday