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Language is a powerful thing. I think we underestimate its power regularly in our lives. Christians often scoff at this, because it sounds like magical thinking: manifesting things doesn’t work, however many copies The Secret has sold. Some charismatic circles go the opposite way and get hyper vigilant over it, scolding friends for ‘speaking something… Continue reading The Power of Language
Over the Summer, on Mondays, I'll be reposting some of my favourite posts from nuakh. This post explores why Adam names the woman Eve in Genesis 3. In Genesis chapter 3, after the events that we usually call ‘the fall’ where the man and the woman are cursed along with the snake and the woman… Continue reading Repost: The Naming of Eve
In a previous post I explored the third commandment to see what it means to bear the name of God and how it applies to us. We live in a moment that needs to understand this—to name yourself is an act of rebellion against God, I argued. It certainly can be an act of rebellion… Continue reading On Names and Naming Again
We don’t think much about the Ten Commandments in my corner of the Christian world, which some of us would think is exactly as it should be—“we’re a people of grace!”—and I fit in the other camp when I wonder if our resistance to the commandments as law means we lose them as wisdom. It… Continue reading On Names and Naming
In Genesis chapter 3, after the events that we usually call ‘the fall’ where the man and the woman are cursed along with the snake and the woman is given a promise for the future, Adam names the woman Eve. Then they are gifted new clothes from the skins of a sacrifice so they can… Continue reading The Naming of Eve
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