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On the Holy Spirit, Alcohol, and How the Luke-Acts Narrative Contradicts the other Gospels
Passing out in church, falling out a window, and breaking your neck (Acts 20:9)
Don’t have sex with your mother. She’s your mother. Don’t have sex with your mother. (Leviticus 18:7)
Dear reader: We believe you should not have sex with your mom/dad, stepmom/dad, sister/brother, half-sister/brother, stepsister/ brother, granddaughter/son, aunts/uncles, daughters/sons-in-law, sisters/brothers-in-law, and that it is a pretty safe bet that you should avoid poly-amorous relationships with members of the same family, or your own family. Apparently, so does the Bible.
Loving God While Not Being a Dick to Everyone Else (The Whole Sum of the Law, the Prophets, and the Gospels) [A New Year's Card Talk]
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Jesus was an Immigrant, a Refugee
Fleeing oppression and likely death, the holy family crossed international boarders without papers. They took whatever they could carry, what little resources they had, and fled. Joseph trusted that God would provide for his family: a Brown day laborer with carpentry skills, a young, frightened wife, and their precociously wide-eyed child.
Setting shit on fire to get attention (2 Samuel 14:28-33): An Apology in Defense of Absalom
Red stuff: Eat it! (Genesis 25:30) - A Thanksgiving Reminder
A rainbow promising that God can genocide you through other means (Genesis 9:13)
Breaking your enemy's teeth, dissolving them like snail slime, aborting them like fetuses, & washing your feet in their blood. On Biblical Schadenfreude [A four for one Card Talk on Psalm 58 ]
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Lusting After Lovers with Donkey Genitals and Horse Emission (Ezekiel 23:20) and Ezekiel’s Obsession with Pornographic Metaphors
Perhaps we should remember the women in the room when Ezekiel first uttered these words. They had been forcibly marched from their homes. They had watched their families die. Some had been raped by the Babylonians. How did they feel? Perhaps we should remember the women who read these texts today, the women in our churches and homes, whose current situations are not too dissimilar to the women in exile by the rivers of Babylon. They have enough reasons to weep.