Leviticus is one of the books in the Jewish Torah and the Christian Old Testament. Chapter 18 of the book deals with a variety of sexual issues that the authors felt were important to Israelites in the Ancient Near East. Leviticus 18:22 is one of the "clobber passages" that Christians have often weaponized to use …
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Recommended reading: Florer-Bixler’s Fire by Night
Melissa Florer-Bixler's book Fire by Night: Finding God in the pages of the Old Testament is a must read for Christians who struggle to make sense of or to find meaning in the Hebrew scriptures. Though her theological and Biblical interpretation skills are clearly evident, Florer-Bixler writes in a wonderfully accessible, narrative style that I …
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Incremental changes
In permaculture design, one of the principles is to make the least change for the greatest effect. One of the reasons to do this is to ensure that one doesn't overdo something--like I did while trimming my beard the other day which left me with some designer stubble rather than a full beard...Another reason, in …
2019: Year of self care
The calendar has flipped to a new year. Despite the somewhat arbitrary nature of the Gregorian calendar, starting the new year on the winter solstice makes more sense to me, we are now at the beginning of a new year, where a new you is possible and everything seems to be new, new, new...As human …
Biblical inerrancy is a myth.
Copyright Dillon Naber Cruz I am now a post-fundamentalist Christian with an evolving view of scripture and a still developing Christology. As a child I went to Sunday School, mostly because my grandparents sent me, along with their youngest son Steven (who though my uncle is younger than me) and sometimes my little sister too, …
The Tattooed Theologian 