Joshua 6: The “Battle” of Jericho

Alright! Joshua 6! Another one of those über-famous stories that also happens to be über-weird and über-interesting. I just figured out how to put an umlaut on my “u,” so I plan on üsing it liberally. I’d like to start talking about this battle by acknowledging the difficulty of reading about the slaughter of an …

Genesis 1: Part 2

I woke up this morning and ran for 8 miles. My knees were grateful for the chance to sit down for an hour to look a little more closely at Genesis 1. The first thing I noticed was that I counted wrong. Light is mentioned 13 times instead of 12. Oops. Structure Having counted enough …