Bunny's Burrow: Hopping into Life

  I made a tactical error today o r at least my sat nav and I made one together. It cheerfully informed my driver that cutting through Dupont Circle would save a few minutes. As navigation systems often do, it was technically correct in the same way that saying "Everest is just a hill with ambition" is technically correct. A few minutes later I found myself orbiting Dupont Circle with what felt like several hundred of my newest acquaintances, all of us participating in an elaborate choreography that nobody seemed to have rehearsed. Eventually I escaped....  Only to drift onto Embassy Row. I hate that place when my ex is around... Now, under almost any other circumstance, Embassy Row is magnificent. Grand historic homes. Flags from every corner of the world. Beautiful old trees. Architecture that quietly reminds you Washington has always had one foot in diplomacy and the other in theatre. It's difficult to appreciate any of that, however, when you've moved approximatel...

  After Babel: Why Divide the Nations at All? A Story We've Been Reading Backwards Ask someone you know what the Tower of Babel is about, and you'll usually hear the same answer. "Pride." People tried to build a tower to heaven and God became angry so he confused their languages. The end. That certainly captures part of the story but I wonder if we've stopped reading too soon. What happens after the languages are confused? The nations scatter. The story moves on. Yet the Bible keeps talking about those nations for the rest of its pages. What if Babel isn't the end of a story? What if it's the beginning of one? Today, I don't want to answer that question. I simply want us to read the text carefully and notice what it actually says. Before We Read One habit I'm trying to break is reading the Bible as though the people in it thought like we do. Because let's face it... They didn't. That isn't because they were less intelligent. They simply...

  My Theory Under Pressure this far... Where My Reading Could Be Wrong If you've followed this journey from the beginning on this blog, you've probably noticed something. I've asked a lot of questions. I love asking questions. True wisdow comes from collective knowledge IMO. Some of them have led to patterns I find VERY compelling. Others have created more questions than answers. That's exactly where I want to be if that makes sense... Too many books and blogs and videos spend hundreds of pages collecting evidence that supports their conclusion while quietly ignoring the evidence that doesn't. That isn't how you test a theory... I don't want to do that. If my theory only survives because I avoided difficult passages, then it isn't much of a theory. So before I bring everything together, (Will take a long time) Hence the free website... I want to place my own ideas under the same scrutiny I've applied to the text. Challenge One: Am I Seeing Developmen...

  Why Does Genesis Suddenly Say "YHWH Elohim"? Part 3: The Name That Bridges Two Worlds So my lovlely lot if you've been following this investigation on my blog from the beginning, you should feel a little uncomfortable by now I think... Don't worry... That's a good sign. It means you are thinking. Good investigations rarely remove tension immediately, rather, they expose it. Genesis 1 has spent an entire chapter introducing the Creator as אֱלֹהִים ( Elohim ) . Not once does it use the name יְהוָה ( YHWH ) . Then, almost without warning, Genesis 2 changes. Not to YHWH . But to: יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים YHWH Elohim. The change is so consistent that it cannot be accidental so the real qestion here is why. Why the change?... The First Appearance Genesis 2:4 Hebrew אֵלֶּה תוֹלְדוֹת הַשָּׁמַיִם וְהָאָרֶץ בְּהִבָּרְאָם בְּיוֹם עֲשׂוֹת יְהוָה אֱלֹהִים אֶרֶץ וְשָׁמָיִם׃ Transliteration ʾĒlleh tôledôt haššāmayim wehāʾāreṣ behibbārʾām; beyôm ʿăśôt YHWH ʾĔlōhîm ʾereṣ wešāmayim. Liter...