First three words

At thirteen months Ben can say Ma Ma, Da Da
and Fa Fa, which he watches his father create

in a wood stove each day to heat their home.
Tonight Ben rocks beside the iron box chanting

Fa Fa as softly as flames draw light from paper,
then drops his head and charges to the kitchen

In his hands, the Bible was a living, aching, burning thing.

By egregiously misreading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s moral crisis, it primes viewers for violence.

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one of them.

Lately I’ve been feeling the same emotions I felt when I deconstructed my evangelical faith.

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