| | Date | Author | Title | Summary | ID |
| Select | 2010-04-16 | Sylvia Dooling | Lesson Nine -- The Challenge of God's Covenant | Hearing the Word of God, here and now, is a laudable goal. But, it cannot bypass the hard work of dealing with the history of the narratives, and the meaning of the text to its author(s). | 372 |
| Select | 2010-04-01 | Sylvia Dooling | Lesson Eight -- The Place of Rest | Because the author is consistently apologetic about the Israelites engaging in war as they are directed by God to take over the land, she loses the point of the book of Joshua. | 370 |
| Select | 2010-02-18 | Sylvia Dooling | The Cities of Refuge -- Lesson 7 | the author does not study the cities of refuge so much as she makes them a pretext for exploring a broader subject of terrorism in the Middle East. | 368 |
| Select | 2010-02-17 | Sylvia Dooling | Random Notes on Horizons Study of Joshua: Lesson 6 | The Lesson's author continues to use the text of Scripture an an excuse for advocating her own political agenda. | 367 |
| Select | 2009-12-18 | Terrye McAnally | Random Notes on Horizons Study of Joshua: Lesson 5 | Rather than selected statements from General Assembly Minutes on page 60, the editors could have pointed readers to the Social Witness Policy Compilation, pp. 113-152, for a fuller, more nuanced understanding of the denominations statements on war. In any event, readers should be aware of the dates attached to the statements that are presented here & be encouraged to factor in the social context of the late 1960s in which the cited statements were adopted ... | 366 |
| Select | 2009-11-18 | Terrye McAnally | Random Notes on Horizons Study of Joshua: Lesson 4 | After two good lessons, this one is disappointing because it is so misleanding | 359 |
| Select | 2009-10-29 | Terrye McAnally | Random Notes on Horizons Study of Joshua: Lesson 3 | Questions of "thinking" are always better than questions of "feeling." | 358 |
| Select | 2009-09-22 | Sylvia Dooling | Random Notes on Horizons Study of Joshua: Lesson 2 | “When God calls us to a position of leadership, God also gives us the strength and courage to follow God’s call.†| 346 |
| Select | 2009-08-06 | Sylvia Dooling | Random Notes on Horizons Study of Joshua: Lesson 1 | Mary Mikhael, the author of the Joshua study, has at least two biases of which you need to be aware: | 342 |
| Select | 2009-08-05 | Michael R. Walker | The Drama of Redemption in the Conquest of Canaan: Consideri | The “Holy War†passages in the Bible that describe the Israelite Conquest of Canaan are surely some of the most disturbing – and disturbingly misused – passages in all of Scripture. | 341 |
| Select | 2009-08-04 | Alan F. H. Wisdom | 21 Theses to Guide U.S. Christian Engagement with the Middle | There are two habits in which U.S. churches indulge that are counter-productive to Middle East peace and justice. The first is the temptation to believe that we U.S. Christians know the precise details of a just and final settlement between Israel and its Arab neighbors. | 340 |
| Select | 2009-08-03 | Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein | A Rabbi Reflects on the Horizons Study of Joshua - Part II | If we can leave exercises in misappropriating history to the politicians, we can return to the text itself. How should we engage a rather difficult book of the Bible? | 338 |
| Select | 2009-07-30 | Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein | A Rabbi Reflects on the Horizons Study of Joshua - Part I | I read Joshua: A Journey of Faith by Mary Mikhael with sadness and pain. It does not at all read like a study guide, but as advocacy for a political position. I have found one of the most egregious errors in the Study Guide is the implication that Israelis regard the Book of Joshua as their leasehold to the Land and their guide in managing it. This is hateful nonsense, and completely disregards the facts of the rise of the modern State of Israel. | 337 |
| Select | 2009-07-27 | Viola Larson | Encountering a Blood Libel Tale | I have spent a great deal of my life dealing with and writing about racism and anti-Semitism. I am aware that all through the history of the Jewish people libelous stories have been told about them. From The Protocols of the Elders of Zion to stories of Jewish ritual murder of Christian children to false charges against Alfred Dreyfus, the French army officer falsely accused of treason in 1894, the Jewish people have had to live with the withering stories spread by both the malicious and the uni | 333 |
| Select | 2009-05-02 | VOW Board of Directors | Assessment of the Horizons 2009-2010 Bible Study | While we believe this study is seriously flawed by a political bias and inadequate understanding of the authority of Scripture, we think it could serve as a springboard for study of the book of Joshua if supplemented by materials that offer a more balanced view of the Middle East situation and an understanding of the authority of Scripture that is in line with our Reformed Confessions. | 320 |