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Jesus, the Spirit, and the Living Temple - Episode 196 (opens the original)
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Christians often say that our bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit—but what relationship does that language actually describe? It can become shorthand for taking care of ourselves, receiving divine guidance, or carrying a private source of spiritual help. Those ideas have a place in Christian theology, but the New Testament’s temple and indwelling texts are describing something more relational and more deeply Trinitarian. In this episode, we trace the movement from the Word tabernacling among h
Temple Refuge: A Dangerous Place to Be Safe - Episode 195 (opens the original)
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What does it mean to call the temple a place of refuge? In this episode of the Refuge series, we look at the temple and tabernacle as more than places of sacrifice. In the Old Testament, sacred space is also associated with God’s presence, protection, purification, justice, rest, provision, and ordered life. We trace that picture through texts including Psalm 46, Isaiah, Deuteronomy, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Micah. Along the way, we consider why sacred space can be both protective and dangerous, h
The Enigma of Death and the Return to Inheritance - Episode 194 (opens the original)
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What does refuge actually preserve—and what is it ultimately for? In Numbers 35, the manslayer is protected from death but remains cut off from his land and possession until the death of the high priest. That strange legal arrangement becomes the starting point for a wider biblical-theological exploration of judgment, preservation, land, seed, and inheritance. In this episode, we look at the avenger of blood, the Hebrew goel, the death of the high priest, and what Numbers 35 does—and does not—sa
The Sea was Angry that Day, My Friends - Episode 193 (opens the original)
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The waters of Genesis 7 do a remarkable amount of the acting. Meanwhile, after Yahweh shuts Noah in, Noah does nothing until he opens the window in Genesis 8. In this episode, we follow the verbs and grammatical subjects through Genesis 7–8 and ask what we see when we read the flood as a narrative before reducing it to a set of theological propositions. We’ll look closely at the Hebrew gabar, the word translated “prevailed,” and the crescendo created as the waters gain and sustain mastery over t
So Long, and Thanks for All the Divine Beings - Episode 192 (opens the original)
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Fish as divine beings, divine fishermen, and dolphins in the sanctuary? Beginning with Jonah’s great fish, this episode follows fish and water imagery through the mighty warrior water of the Flood, the cultic ancient Near Eastern world, the Tabernacle, and the prophets. We peer into waters as places of life and judgment and see the fish as a creature adapted to a realm humans cannot inhabit, with Mesopotamian apkallu and fish imagery, Egyptian associations with fertility and protection, and the
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