“Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. ” Abraham Lincoln said this in his second inaugural address alluding to the fact that the North and the South each used the Bible to support of their very different views on slavery. Lincoln wasn’t the […]
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On Reading the Unreadable Book: Leviticus
What should we “do” with Leviticus? That is the book in the Old Testament with all the instructions about sacrifice and the rules about eating and clothing and, of course, sex. One option is to ignore it. We can do that, in one of two ways. We can reason that since there is no Temple, […]
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