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Journey in the Bible

Lynne Baab • Tuesday August 5 2025

Human beings move around. A LOT. Archaeologists have recently begun to use DNA analysis to discover the vast extent of human migration long before historical records. The tower of Babel story, set in what is now southern Iraq, gives one early picture: “So the Lord scattered them from there over all the earth” (Genesis 11:8; read the whole incident here).

An amazing number of stories in the Bible involve journeys. A small sampling includes:

God saying to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). Joseph being forced to go to Egypt after being sold by...

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First post in a new series: Journey

Lynne Baab • Tuesday July 29 2025

Pause for a moment and think about trips you've taken recently, or trips taken by people you know. I’m thinking about these:

Dave and I travelled to San Francisco to see a Mary Cassatt art exhibition. A friend of mine took a long drive and ferry voyage to attend a funeral in Campbell River, halfway up Vancouver Island in Canada. Another friend traveled halfway across the country for a family reunion. A friend and her husband spent two grueling weeks with his mother, who has advanced dementia and lives on the other side of the country. Two families at church who are dear to me travelled...

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What I learned from the past year's blog posts

Lynne Baab • Tuesday July 22 2025

Eleven months and three weeks ago, on July 30, 2024, I wrote the first post in this series about the flow of time. I started this year-long series in the middle of the church season of Ordinary Time. I wanted to write about the ways God’s presence through the Holy Spirit comforts, sustains, guides, and empowers us in our daily, ordinary days.

In this last post in the series, I’ll describe what I learned from writing the series.

1. There are A LOT of special days and holidays. If you do an online search for “holidays in July,” you’ll get numerous websites with...

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Praying about the flow of time: Paying attention to our stories

Lynne Baab • Wednesday July 16 2025

“People in fact change by the offer of new models, images, and pictures of how the pieces of life fit together. Transformation is the slow, steady process of inviting each other into a counterstory about God, world, neighbor, and self. This slow, steady process has as counterpoint the subversive process of unlearning and disengaging from a story we find no longer to be credible or adequate.” —Walter Brueggemann, Texts Under Negotiation

In this church season of Ordinary Time, I’m encouraging you, my beloved readers, to think about the daily, ordinary Christian journey. One aspect of our daily life of discipleship is to be...

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