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 …
Gideon’s story begins like so many in the Old Testament: “The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the Lord.” Does anyone else wonder what their problem was? Why couldn’t they ever just keep it together? (It’s because they were human.) The overarching lesson is no matter how many times we mess up, God will …
The Bible, for all its hope and miracles is also a book full of great pain. Mary had to watch her son slowly die on a cross in public, Job’s entire family died, one of Adam and Eve’s sons murdered the other. Pain is everywhere in this book but so is restoration. For many, Job’s …
In the late 80s and early 90s, The Ten Commandments aired on television every Easter Sunday, so like a Norman Rockwell painting, my family watched it together at my grandmother’s house while eating cake shaped like a cartoon rabbit’s head; coconut supplementing for fur and jelly beans for eyes and a mouth. I loved the …
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; …
Ryan Brinson 