Why This Creation Story?
Lessons from the first biblical creation story (Gen 1)
Hurston and Eden
Reading the creation story with a Black literary genius (Gen 2 – 3)
God’s Rainbow Covenant in Contexts
Cautions and lessons (Gen 9)
Preaching Beyond Abram
What happens when we care about all involved in Abram’s call? (Gen 12)
What is Abram’s Problem?
God’s Word looks different when we focus on the margins (Gen 15)
Does God Have Room for Me Too?
Reading God’s covenant with the excluded (Gen 17)
The Binding of Isaac
Is the God who would ask you to sacrifice your own child worthy of devotion? (Gen 22)
Jacob, the Trickster
Why might we want to think of ourselves as (spiritual) descendants of the trickster? (Gen 27)
Turning from Generations of Violence
How Joseph charts a new path (Gen 45)
The Call of Moses
God’s invitation into the necessary, ethically challenging, and interdependent work of liberation (Exod 3 – 4)
A Story of Death and Freedom
Difficult questions about violence, death, and liberation in the Passover story (Exod 12)
The Deadly and Life-Giving Word of God
A deeply troubling paradox in scripture and our history of interpretation (Exod 34)
Our God of Emancipated Refugees
A communal identity rooted in God’s solidarity during slavery and forced migration (Deut 26)