Day: January 8, 2017

• Baptism of the Christ

  The one-year lectionary this morning includes Genesis 18:16-19:38 – the pick-up to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the story proper, and the aftermath. It’s a dreadful story – that’s well-known. But this morning I noticed how much hesitation there is in the story, at least the way it’s told. God hesitates to tell Abraham […]

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  January 8, 2017

  Something New in the Bible

  Bible, Christianity, exegesis, Genesis 18-19, God, religion, Sodom and Gomorrah