Ok, so here’s the thing. Worship is weird. Church is weird. Everything about Christianity is weird. It isn’t just going about your life and getting through the day, looking for ways to enjoy yourself. It’s more than practicing spirituality and seeking peaceful enlightenment. For those of you that have been in it your whole life, …
I want to take a minute to talk about speculation. Most of the stories we have in the Old Testament don’t give us a lot of detail, especially about what people are thinking or why they make certain choices. A lot of what I do myself as I reflect on passages is speculate about what …
Oh Numbers. Apparently there are issues with the numbers. They don’t make sense in light of archaeological findings in the region. Okay. That doesn’t actually bother me all that much. See, numbers are odd cultural constructs. They represent something absolute, but are still communicated through language. I have no problem believing that language shifted somewhere …