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  • Genesis 23: In Deed

    Genesis 23: In Deed

    At age 127, Sarah dies in Hebron. Abraham negotiates with the Hittites for land to bury her body. He starts by acknowledging that he was a sojourner, a temporary resident.  The Hittites answers that Abraham is a Prince of God, so they offer him some land. Abraham mentions that Ephron had a cave east of…

  • Genesis 19: Fire & Salt

    The angels that had visited Abraham arrive in Sodom and Lot greets them at the gate of the city. As evening approaches, he invites them to stay at his home instead of the town square. They are there to assess the wickedness of the city and will have an answer within a few hours. That…

  • Dental PSA

    Dental PSA

    Today was rough, but didn’t start out that way. How it started was I was going to take my kids to the dentist, then back to school and then go to lunch with a friend. We have a lovely children’s dentist. The office ladies always schedule both the children at the same time so when…

  • Artificial Reality 

    There is a new South Korean show I am intrigued by. In English it is called, Boyfriend on Demand. The premise is a single woman whose time is taken up working and commuting gets an opportunity to try a virtual reality dating app, basically an AI boyfriend machine. At first it’s just fantasy fulfillment: rich,…

  • Genesis 11: Babel and Beyond

    After the flood, all the people settled in one area called the Plain of Shinar. They baked bricks for stone and used bitumen, a viscous form of natural petroleum, for mortar. They said to themselves, let’s build a city and a tower with its top in the heavens and make a name for ourselves, lest…

  • Built to Last

    After I got married, I worked briefly at company that sold custom wood ceilings. I remember one time there were two orders for similar looking products. One was a walnut ceiling, and the other was a poplar ceiling stained to look like walnut.  The first client was an Ivy League school. I think it was…

  • Genesis 8:  Earth 2.0 

    In the eighth chapter of Genesis, it says that God remembered Noah and his family and the rain stopped. A wind blew and the waters subsided. In the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark settled in the mountains of Ararat. That is modernly Turkey’s northeastern border with Iran* and Armenia.  After waiting 40…

  • Evil-ish 

    In fiction, the villain is often self-aware, and when cornered, will be quite forthcoming in their diabolical plot as they laugh at the suffering of others. In real life, more often than not, no one sees themselves as the bad guy either before, during or even after they get caught.  On the small scale you start…

  • Genesis 3: In the Garden

    The story of beginning takes a turn when the serpent starts talking. Being “craftier” than the other animals, it asks the woman if God actually said they shall not eat of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  Is this a talking animal book? No. No more animals speak except for one time later.…

  • Genesis 2:21 Woman

    The Lord caused the man to fall asleep and took his rib and made a woman. The man said “at last, bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.” He called her woman meaning taken from man. Adam saw himself in Eve.  The text says, “therefore a man shall leave his parents and join…