While tradition tells us that Moses wrote the first 5 books of the bible, scholarship assumes that Moses lived 12,000 years before the beginning of writing in the Middle East. What Biblical scholars think happen
Genesis is the true story of the creation of the universe, even if it didn’t happen like it says. It was written and passed down as story in temples and sacred places, around fires and
It has happened that throughout time, when people have time, people have stopped and looked at the world around them and thought, we can do better. They saw a problem and then imagined what the
Well, here we are again and the text doesn’t get any easier. My preaching professor suggests that we start to craft a sermon we start by looking at what God is doing in the text.
We have gotten to the bit of revelation that you probably recognize. This part of the Revelation story is set up for, is perfect for creative interpretations, for imagination, for storytelling, for images, for fan
I have always been a reader. As a younger person with free time, reading opened up worlds to me and it gave way for something I wasn’t always great at--imagination. I crossed the bridge to
When I was in college I went with a friend, to one of her friend’s place to watch the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. When we got there I noticed that this person
We knew when we started Ephesians that it was only going to be 4 weeks and even if we did a whole chapter at a time… we were going to miss some things. We strategically
There is no world in which a normal Christmas scripture would be this one from Ephesians. We know our Christmas story. But being able maybe there’s a reason to remember Christmas, even on this day
We have trusted the academics, historians, the professional biblical scholars who have posited that this letter was written at the end of the 1st century, and here the author is, still talking about circumcision! You
