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Captain & First Mate
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The God Who Speaks
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Back to School Daze
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Genesis 50: The Final Scene
The last chapter of Genesis opens with Joseph weeping over the body of Israel. He has his father’s corpse embalmed in a forty-day process. This is an Egyptian custom rather than the traditional practice of shepherds. Joseph tells Pharaoh about his father’s death and the Egyptians weep for him for seventy days. They are honoring…
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Genesis 44: Cup Confessions
In the morning after feasting and drinking, Judah and his ten brothers, including Simeon and Benjamin start on their journey home with bags bursting with grain. What they don’t know is that Joseph has put silver in their grain bags and his own drinking cup into Benjamin’s bag. You’d think after last time they’d check. …
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Two Loves
Did I rewatch all the Hunger Games movies over the last two weeks? Yes. Again, seeing the character arcs as an older adult gives some additional perspective. Now let’s talk romance. Gale is objectively hotter and smarter than Peeta but, ultimately Katniss rejects him. Here’s why. In the beginning, Gale and Katniss have a genuine…
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Genesis 38: Breaking Dawn
In case you’re under the impression that the Old Testament is shy about human sexuality, here is a rated R story that is fully cancelable by modern standards. Leah’s fourth son, Judah had three sons with Shua, a Canaanite, who named them Er, Onan and Shelah. A young woman named Tamar is married the eldest…
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Genesis 37: Dream a Little Dream
The focus of the narrative now shifts from Israel, formally known as Jacob, to his eleventh son Joseph while the family is living as shepherds and farmers in Hebron. Joseph is seventeen in this story. His oldest half-brother, Ruben, is about ten years older than Joseph and is one of Leah’s six sons. There were…
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The Undeserving Poor
