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Untangling Korach

Untangling Korach

Sometimes the only way to get clarity is by trying to peel back the layers to see how close we might get to the beginning.

Give Back Indigenous Property Save Mother Nature Pacha Mama sign, people marching

"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs In

Guest Post from Daniel Delgado

MAD Magazine's Spy vs Spy except carrying grapes a la Caleb & Joshua

Spy vs. Spy

Or: How Stories Tell (on) Us

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time away

17th c. people looking at, pointing at the central figure in the painting, a woman whose back is bare, hair down

Whose Truth

Sometimes women with voices are shut out of the camp. But that’s not the end of the story.

Total Eclipse of the 🌞

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Total Eclipse of the 🌞

Illustration of beautiful women with dark Black and lighter Black/Brown skin tones with ancient Egyptian-like styling

16 Takes On the "Kushite Wife" Verse That Have Nothing To Do With White Supremacy

they had other things going on in the ancient world, you know

The musician Victoria Hanna looks up at the camera with the letter––well, in our house we're debating if that's a ס or a ט,

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incantation

Image of Gilgamesh looking giant and muscled and a lion in his arms looking tiny and scared

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Exploring Mythic Tropes

A Black woman with jeans and a tank top and hair in a scarf parts the head of a Black man, whose eyes are closed.

A Defense of Delilah

Let's take a closer look at things from her perspective, shall we?

pen and ink drawing of Samson, with sunburst design behind it

taking a holy time out

When it's time to do some serious spiritual heavy lifting, taking a break from things that make it difficult to hear that still small voice within is sometimes key.

Earthenware vessel filled with copper ore and mifepristone

ancient abortifacients, reproductive coercion, and bad translations

So... if this this "bitter water" induces pregnancy endings?? How would we understand this whole scenario?

Ancient vessels

debunking the conquest narrative

facing one of the hardest narrative arcs in the Bible armed with the truth of what really happened