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Books of the Bible Obidiah

Obadiah

With only 21 verses, Obadiah is the shortest book in the Old Testament, and yet it is a complete message with the twin prophetic themes of condemnation (1–16) and consolation (17–21; the consolation portion concerns Judah, not Edom). The burden of Obadiah is a pronouncement of inescapable doom upon the Edomites (Esau) because they looked …

Education

Return to the One Room School House?

A “One Room Schoolhouse” is more a pedagogy, an approach to learning, than a physical description, though most this year would indeed meet in private homes out of necessity if nothing else. Historically many schools that employed the “One Room” method were, in fact, just a single room, often framed like a house, and which …