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This week, we're wandering into a valley full of dry bones!
Ezekiel 37 is the Bible at its most horror-movie: bones rattle together, sprout sinew and skin, and stand up as "an exceeding great army," before the chapter loses steam with a much less metal bit about two sticks.
What was Ezekiel actually promising the exiles in Babylon, and how did those sticks tur...
This week, we're finally reading a chapter verse by verse, and Exodus 24 does not make it easy: in just 18 verses, Moses climbs a mountain, wanders off to write everything down and splash the people with blood, climbs again, and somehow keeps finding more mountain.
Along the way, seventy-four people look straight at the God of Israel (feet, sapphire pavement, and all) ...
Pope Leo XIV called the death penalty "inadmissible," and the internet promptly told him to go read his Bible—the one that prescribes execution for everything from kidnapping to picking up sticks on the Sabbath. But the Pope is making the same image-of-God argument from Genesis 1:27 that abolitionists used to argue their way past the Bible's acceptance of slavery, and the Gos...
In the beginning was the Word, but what if the Word was Wisdom all along?
This week we welcome Dustin Smith, New Testament scholar at Spartanburg Methodist College and host of the Biblical Unitarian Podcast, to talk about his book Wisdom Christology in the Gospel of John, which traces how John's portrait of Jesus draws on Lady Wisdom from Proverbs, Sirach, and the wid...
It's the most spookiest time of the year, so we're debuting a brand-new segment: Hexegesis!
Did King James really slip "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live" into Exodus because he hated witches, or does the trouble go all the way back to the Hebrew—and why does a Bible that bans divination keep showing its heroes doing it (as long as they're authorized, aiming at th...