Mark is a homegrown theologian, a song writer, and a recovering asshole of some note. Ask his wife. Like Adam, it’s a hell of a thing trying to see your way out. There is smoke pouring out of his eyeballs from the thistles and thorns crackling inside. ... Mark wants to imagine a new vision of the stories, and maybe get out of this mess. The Hebrew text follows the First Rule of Fight Club. Never talk about Fight Club! Show, don’t tell. So the first rule of Patriarchy Club: never mistake portrayal for approval. Sorry, it’s not quite as catchy as the First Rule of Fight Club, he’s working on it. Second, look precisely at the words. Some call it literary criticism. Most of us, when we try to read the stories in the bible, are not actually reading the story itself, but the stories we have been told about it. Mark is focusing on “what does it actually say,” and then putting on his Literary Reading Comprehension goggles to see what is there. It seems to be about dirt.  


His Eye Is On The Sparrow
Rock Of Ages
I Was Always Talking About Jesus
What happened in the garden that day
She is my sister