Category: Bible Studies
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Whose Voice, Whose Debt, Whose Name
A Reflection on Genesis 32 & 33 In an asylum interview room, a person tells their story through an interpreter, and an officer types a shorter version of it into a form. What ends up in the file is not what was said. It is a summary, filtered, cut down, missing the pauses and the…
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Weak Eyes, Chosen Body: Reading Leah in Genesis 29:15-28
When I was a little girl, I watched a family coming to see a girl for marriage. There were two sisters in that house. The older one had a squint in her eyes. The younger one did not. On the day the visiting family came to see the older sister for their son, the sisters’…
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Rizpah Speaks
(After writing my previous post on 2 Samuel 21, my thoughts kept returning to Rizpah. The passage tells us what was done to her sons, but it never lets her speak for herself. So I have tried, in a small way, to give her that voice back. What follows is Rizpah’s story, in her own…