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Preaching Bathsheba and wondering #what2preach? I got you covered 6 ways from Sunday, starting with #WomanistMidrash. You've got to get the book to see what comes between these two paragraphs. smile.amazon.com/Womanist-Midra⦠
Here's my Bathsheba and Black Lives Matter sermon (because they still do and it still needs to be said): wilgafney.com/2015/07/26/batβ¦
And this one about the end of Bathsheba's story: wilgafney.com/2012/08/19/resβ¦
A few days ago, I chose to be vulnerable and share something intimate about myself in response to @WilGafney's thread containing highlights from her book, #WomanistMidrash (which jumped to the top of my "to buy" list).
What I expected was, perhaps, a few "likes" and re-tweets, and I got those. My hope was that I would be an encouragement to a few people, and I think that happened, too. What I didn't expect was my first experience of being bullied online.
One Twitter user shared my post specifically for the purposes of "siccing his dogs" on me. As a result, over and over, people cursed me, insulted me, made light of things I care about, called me a "heretic," and proclaimed I was destined for hell.
The biblical writers have more imagination than their readers.
The Bible we use as a Episcopalians and as Christians does not begin with the New Testament.
There is an abundance of feminine and masculine descriptive imagery for God well before father language is introduced.
