The Bible as Literature

h/t Blaise who sent this my way today. The original link from the homepage can be found here. May those with ears to hear, hear.

There is no podcast I have pushed on my friends and family harder than The Bible as Literature. And yet only a handful have ever taken me up on that offer, and even fewer have become students of scripture (and as true students also teachers and sowers of the word of life) after this exposure. “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

This clip was recorded from a voicemail I left the podcast hosts of my favorite show ten years ago, when I was a 24 year old unordained (before I entered the diaconate) Sunday school teacher and choir member of my home parish in sunny South Central Los Angeles, CA. There is no one thing I attribute my learning to when people frequently ask, but consistency is 80% of it. The fitness instructor (1 Timothy 4:8) Tony Horton, of Beachbody and P90X fame, says, “just show up”, and “do your best, and forget the rest.” When you do these things with scripture and liturgy and poetry in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church for a decade, you may learn a thing or two. Just be careful, for “much learning doth make thee mad.”