Abishag on King David

1 Kings: 1:1–4

Now in the cold part of his life, he lies alone
with no one to warm his memory
of great deeds done for great blessings.

They called me from Shunem to sleep
next to the king, to touch but never
to share his anointed body.

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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