Sometimes you have to genuflect with trash. Early on in the life of Jesus’ followers, there was a common awareness that God had revealed Himself as Father, and through Jesus the Son, and by the movement and presence of God’s Spirit. There was this early belief in a threeness to the Oneness: God is unified, … Continue reading The Goodness of Grief: Part 6–Genuflecting with Trash
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Older than Dirt: Part 5—Try Not to Step in the Blood
If you wanted to make peace with a nearby tribe in the ancient Near East, it usually required spilling a lot of blood. I’m not saying that this should make sense to us now, but somehow it did make sense to them then. Instead of spilling each other’s blood, they would take a few animals, … Continue reading Older than Dirt: Part 5—Try Not to Step in the Blood