Day Bidet #44

I am a poor wayfaring stranger:

1. “Even though my relatives were African American people—the community was there to help clean up, handing them money and gifts of time and expressing love.”
2. Whoops.
3. Something I didn’t expect to read about just quite yet: “the underground church in Canada.” (Finland not far behind. Nor Oregon.)
4. Not national news. Not national news. Not national news. Not national news. Not national news. And fake news.
5. “We need to see in our minds Jesus entering into the mikveh, immersing himself, and soaking wet as he enters the Temple courts.” (Related.)
6. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. Clown World. But this one takes the cake. Demon World.
7. “What, then, is the meaning of Armageddon for contemporary readers of Revelation? It is the confidence that God is at work in history to reveal divine justice and righteousness.”

More:

You can’t trust the experts. (Related.)

“Jeremiah may have been the brother of Azariah the high priest whose seal impression was found in the city of David.”

“Even in the 1980s, slightly over half of women had a maximum of one sex partner before walking down the aisle. … By the 2010s, only 5 percent of new brides were virgins.”

“The best explanation for why attribution of the fourth gospel to John was so popular in such a variety of orthodox and heretical circles from the middle of the second century onward is that the attribution predated that timeframe.”

Reading recommendations.

“Contact with Jesus didn’t render him unclean. Instead, sinners and the unclean were purified and made holy.”