2FAB episode 22: Numbers 12-13.
Luci and Jordan look at the odd and lonely stories of Miriam and Moses’ Cushite wife and the exploration of Canaan
Luci and Jordan look at the odd and lonely stories of Miriam and Moses’ Cushite wife and the exploration of Canaan
Two strawmen are often lightning rods for Christian efforts to keep Christ at the heart of Christmas. These strawmen are irrelevant distractions.
Might it be true that the great threat of God becoming human, as a baby who becomes an anarchist rather than a priest, is that in the incarnation, God threatens the church and her power-mongers, annually?
God will come. That much is sure. He will be here next week. What gifts will we bring? Another Psalm instructs us that, besides our adoration and hymnody, God would like to have our brokeness, the shattered pieces of our scandalous old lives.