Compassionate Reading

#tanakh

8 items tagged #tanakh, across the whole site.

• Blog February 28, 2020

  Are Jesus and Christ the Same Person?

  Maybe! But also maybe not! Let's dig into the differences. (They definitely are two distinct things.)

• Blog February 20, 2020

  On the Origin of Navels and Other Things

  Did Adam and Eve have navels is a silly question. They didn't, for several reasons:

• Blog February 19, 2020

  Abraham & Isaac

  Once upon a time, in the Bible, God and Abraham were having a conversation. God was explaining how he needed to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah, and Abraham was explaining how he…

• Blog February 13, 2020

  "Your God Shall Be My God": The Book of Ruth

  In many ways, The Book of Ruth is a gentle echo of The Book of Job. In Job, we witness a righteous man destroyed for a wager who remains unwavering in his faith right up until he…

• Blog February 12, 2020

  Lot & His Daughters, or, Hospitality Gone Terribly Wrong

  There are Bible stories that aren't in the Bible, and it occurs to me right now that I could spend a lot of time not writing at all about Lot and his daughters and just talk about…

• Blog February 11, 2020

  "An Infinity of Silence": The Book of Job

  One of my favorite passages in the entire Bible is Job 42:3: "Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know."

• Blog February 7, 2020

  Satan & Scripture

  This momentary president's son said a dumb thing on Twitter: "Likelihood of Nancy Pelosi praying for Trump is about the same as the likelihood of Satan running around quoting the…

• Blog September 5, 2018

  The Book I'm Not Reading

  I own a not insignificant number of copies of Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, the best novel ever written in the English language. As a Christian who is saved in Christ (I think?)…