As an ordained clergyperson, I have been teaching this lesson for years. I have never able to put it as succinctly as you have, Robin. (That's why you're published, and I'm not!) Thanks for venturing out onto this particular limb!
Ah, but you didn't take credit for being my subject matter expert for the first book in my Blessed Be series! Being a clergy person yourself, you were the perfect person to help me make sure my character (Spencer Hill, in For Love of God) was represented accurately and sensitively. And who knows? Your time to "publish" might just be coming up!
If *any* of it actually happened, I would say that the misinterpretation (IMHO) of why she became a pillar of salt is one more example of how the Church colored scripture in ways that are judgmental and condemnatory (and, while we're at it, misogynistic).
As an ordained clergyperson, I have been teaching this lesson for years. I have never able to put it as succinctly as you have, Robin. (That's why you're published, and I'm not!) Thanks for venturing out onto this particular limb!
Ah, but you didn't take credit for being my subject matter expert for the first book in my Blessed Be series! Being a clergy person yourself, you were the perfect person to help me make sure my character (Spencer Hill, in For Love of God) was represented accurately and sensitively. And who knows? Your time to "publish" might just be coming up!
Perhaps... we'll see.
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Does Lot's wife being turned into a pillar of salt factor into any of this, or did that actually not happen?
If *any* of it actually happened, I would say that the misinterpretation (IMHO) of why she became a pillar of salt is one more example of how the Church colored scripture in ways that are judgmental and condemnatory (and, while we're at it, misogynistic).