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Misquoting Jesus on Sword Control
Watch out, folks. This one gets political...
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May 2022

Balaam Is a Terrible Prophet of Doom (Part I)
Being incapable of uttering curses can be a real liability, especially when you're from a family of professional doomsayers...
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Abraham Searches for the Promised Land
A beautiful story about finding home...
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April 2022

Why We Parody
In Praise of Rewriting Familiar Stories, And the Eight Reasons for Homage
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March 2022

A Quick Update
An April interlude, and more fiction coming soon...
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Enoch Walks with God
And Learns Many Lessons Along the Way
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Ecclesiastes Survives a Mix-Up with Death’s Intern
A rollicking story of otherworldly visitors, mistaken identities, and even the bathroom sink...
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God Gives an Interview to Explain a Few Things [Avery Corman]
"Giraffes. It was a good thought, but it really didn’t work out. Avocados—on that I made the pit too big..."
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Moses Loses Half of the Ten Commandments
Hilarity ensues when he gets some help brainstorming new ones...
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February 2022

Paul is Perplexed by a Mystical Library
The great man of letters is confronted by his readers—and the very nature of truth
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Why I’m Rewriting the Bible
“Don’t Look Up” is just Noah’s Ark, and Life in Code
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Elisha Feels Bad about the Bears
Cursing those kids with she-bears might not have been his best idea...
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