Bunny's Burrow: Hopping into Life

Not Towers, but Covenants: Why the New Jerusalem Comes Down Reading the Book of Revelation through the lens of ancient covenant mountains changes everything. Last time , I argued that ancient ziggurats weren't really towers. They were covenants made visible. That's a strange sentence the first time you hear it. But it's a little like saying a wedding ring is just a piece of metal. Technically... Sure. But everyone knows that's not what the ring means . 🤔 The same thing happened with the ancient ziggurats of Mesopotamia . We often describe them as stepped temple towers. That's accurate. It's also incomplete. They were places where heaven and earth were understood to meet, where the relationship between the divine, the king, the city, and the land was renewed through worship and stewardship. They weren't simply buildings. They were visible reminders that a relationship still existed. That thought stayed with me. Because...

Not Towers, but Contracts: What Ziggurats Were Really For Ask someone what a ziggurat is and they'll probably tell you it's an ancient temple tower. That's true. It's also a little like saying a wedding ring is just a piece of metal. Technically correct. But it completely misses the point. 🤔 The more I've been reading Mesopotamian archaeology, royal inscriptions, temple records, and mythology, the more I've started wondering if we're asking the wrong question. We tend to describe ziggurats by what they looked like. Massive. Stepped. Built from millions of mud bricks. Impressive feats of Bronze Age engineering. All of that is true. But ancient people rarely built something this expensive simply because it looked impressive. Every civilization pours enormous amounts of time, labor, and resources into the things it believes keep the world together. So maybe the better question isn't, "What...

When Necromancy Became a System How medieval scholars began building the machinery of astral magic Every history of Western magic has a missing chapter or two. The west know the great grimoires. They know the Renaissance magicians. They know the familiar names that appear again and again whenever people discuss learned magic: Agrippa , Ficino , Pico , Trithemius , John Dee , and the long shadow of the Key of Solomon  etc... But somewhere in the fourteenth century, something changed. Necromancy stopped being merely a loose collection of forbidden rites, whispered procedures, borrowed names, planetary hours, suspicious diagrams, and instructions that always seem to begin with someone being alone at night with entirely too much confidence. Allegedly... It began to become something else. Not simply a list of rituals, but a theory of how the universe could be operated and that is the part I find fascinating. Not because medieval necroma...

Church Part 13: What Did Ancient People Mean by “God”? Before we ask what the Bible teaches about God, we may need to ask what its writers meant by the word. The Question We Didn’t Know We Were Asking Let’s begin with a very simple question. When you hear the word God , what appears in your mind? Not what you think should appear. What actually appears? Maybe you picture the Creator of heaven and earth. Maybe you think of the Trinity. Maybe you imagine a supreme being, eternal and all-powerful, outside time and space. Maybe, if we are being honest, some part of your imagination still reaches for the old Sunday school picture: an elderly man in the sky with a white beard, looking faintly disappointed in everyone. That is not a silly picture. Most of us inherited some version of it. I certainly did. We grow up hearing the word God as though it is obvious. As though everyone, everywhere, has always meant the same thing by it. We read Genesis, Exodus, Psalms, Is...