Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Did you know that there are dozens and dozens of stories of a great flood in the most diverse and disparate cultures, from Japan to the Maya, from Babylon to Polynesia, from the Eskimos to the Australian Aborigines and Africa? Noah's Ark is the story of a vast ecological catastrophe caused by human blindness. Do you think this may be a relevant story nowadays? I believe it could be the most compelling and urgent story for our time, and I hope you’ll agree with me once we read it together today.

Credits: Translation: The Message (MSG) Copyright © 1993, 2002, 2018 by Eugene H. Peterson

Music: "Sihouette of Time's Idea" and “Roar of the Wild”, by Mid-Air Machine, from their album So We Telepathy: freemusicarchive.org “The Morning After”, by Mikael Kallin from Artlist.io Great ideas and inspiration from Rob Bell’s What Is the Bible?: How an Ancient Library of Poems, Letters and Stories Can Transform the Way You Think and Feel About Everything