I was listening to Glennon Doyle’s podcast this morning and something she said really struck me like a fly ball to the chin. It wasn’t even the main point of what she was talking about, or maybe it was since it’s what became lodged in my brain, but it rattled me in a way I …
Today marks 40 days of living in my personal Ark in Harlem. I've been keeping a quarantine journal to document this weird time and this morning, I thought about Noah. I wrote about him in "Sunday School for Sinners & Saints" but today, I feel like Noah is me. And you. Perhaps this is what …
There are famous people in the Bible and then there’s Jezebel. Hers is a name that transcends Christianity and it wouldn’t surprise me if many people didn’t know a) who she was beyond her being a wicked woman; and b) that she’s from a Biblical story. The name Jezebel conjures up a very specific meaning; …
Jonah and the whale is one of the Bible’s great fantastical stories. It’s got drama, it’s got stunts, it’s got a giant fish—it’s practically a Disney movie. To that end, I imagined the famous fish looked something like the enormous whale in Pinocchio and for three days Jonah sat inside its cavernous belly on a …
I spent half of my childhood wanting to be a lion tamer. Every other day, I watched a VHS recording of a Ringling Bros. special my parents taped for me and all I wanted was to be the guy inside the cage with the lions. There were tigers too, my favorite of which was the …
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