Bishop Resigned After Sexual Abuse Lawsuits

Last updated on: June 27, 2023 at 4:21 pm By Rebecca Wallace Keene

As US News reported, Knoxville Tennessee’s bishop resigned after sexual abuse lawsuits. Bishop Richard Stika resigned on June 27, 2023. The bishop stated health reasons were part of his reason for resignation. However, he admitted that the lawsuits which have plagued his ministry contributed to his resignation. Cases such as this are the reason the truth of The Torah’s words about sexual crimes must be taught correctly. Bishop Resigned After Sexual Abuse Lawsuits The bishop was recently accused of protecting... Read more

National Pink Day: Remember the Holocaust This Holiday

Last updated on: June 21, 2023 at 11:39 pm By Rebecca Wallace Keene

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June 23rd is National Pink Day. This day is set aside to oppose bullying and celebrate the color pink. The color pink often represents femininity or softness. For this reason, during The Holocaust gay men, bisexual men, transgender women, and others considered sexual deviants were forced to wear a pink triangle. This National Pink Day, let us remember the Holocaust and those who wore the pink triangle. Let us take a stand against homophobic bullying amongst our people. National Pink... Read more

Archaeological Proof for Deuteronomy and Joshua

Last updated on: June 20, 2023 at 4:42 am By Rebecca Wallace Keene

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Joshua 8:30 states, “Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel,”. Until 2019, we had no solid proof to support this verse. However, The Jerusalem Post reported that in 2019 an expedition was led to sift through the material discarded from previous excavations on Mount Ebal. Among that discarded material was found a tablet. That tablet has now undergone x-ray tomographic measurements. The results of that have given us archaeological proof for... Read more

Is Judaism a Community or a Religion First and What Does That Mean?

Last updated on: June 15, 2023 at 4:29 am By Rebecca Wallace Keene

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I’ve been rereading Rabbi Kushner’s book To Life this month. June being Pride Month, one thing Kushner said inspired me to think about how we treat the person amongst us who is “different” from the majority of our community. The quote inspired me to ask, is Judaism a community or religion? What does that mean for the LGBT+ community? Kushner wrote: “With no precise definintion of what Judaism believes, you would expect the result to be chaos and anarchy, but it’s... Read more

What is the Sexuality of G-d According to The Bible?

Last updated on: June 11, 2023 at 7:51 pm By Rebecca Wallace Keene

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In the previous article, we established that G-d is androgynous in gender. If G-d is androgynous, then what is the sexuality of G-d? What is the Sexuality of G-d in the Torah? Bisexual While some people may think of discussing G-d’s sexuality as blasphemy, the authors of The Bible did not believe so. The Bible has a lot to say on the topic. In the Torah, we see G-d as married to all of Israel, both male and female. Indeed,... Read more

What is the Gender of G-d According to the Bible?

Last updated on: June 11, 2023 at 7:52 pm By Rebecca Wallace Keene

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In our previous post, we established that spirits do have genders. Thus, if we believe G-d to be a spiritual being, she/he must have a gender. The question then becomes, what is the gender of G-d? The Bible tends to use the pronoun he for G-d. For this reason, throughout history, G-d has been seen as only a man. However, this ignores the fact The Holy Spirit is feminine in Hebrew, as we established in our post “Do Spirits Have... Read more

Do Spirits Have Sexuality According to The Bible?

Last updated on: May 31, 2023 at 10:01 pm By Rebecca Wallace Keene

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In my last article, I showed that according to The Bible, spirits have genders. However, gender and sexuality are different things. Do spirits have sexuality? Do Spirits Have Sexuality In The New Testament? The Bible seems to suggest that yes Spirits do have sexuality. Of course, the most obvious example comes from the New Testament when The Spirit of The Lord “comes upon” Mary and impregnates her. This is a clear description of a spirit having sexual relations which results... Read more

Do Spirits Have Genders According to The Bible?

Last updated on: May 29, 2023 at 1:54 am By Rebecca Wallace Keene

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Do spirits have genders? This question is important for our understanding of G-d. While it may seem a hard question to answer, The Torah has a lot to say on the subject. Do Spirits Have Genders in Grammar First, we know that grammatically the word for spirit is feminine in Hebrew. The Hebrew word Ruach means spirit or breath and it is grammatically feminine. This alone doesn’t automatically mean that a spirit is female as the grammatical gender of a... Read more

Should Abraham Have Thrown Out Ishmael?

Last updated on: May 26, 2023 at 12:34 am By Rebecca Wallace Keene

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Should Abraham have thrown out Ishmael and his mother? It is a rough moment in The Torah. Readers are often disturbed to read of a father throwing his son out into the desert to die. What are we to learn from this story? The Story: Why Abraham Threw Out Ishmael The story begins with G-d promising to make Abraham and Sarah parents. Sarah laughs at this idea. She clearly does not trust G-d to do what he said he would.... Read more

Are Modern Marriage Vows in the Bible?

Last updated on: May 21, 2023 at 11:19 pm By Rebecca Wallace Keene

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This week, we are reading the story of Ruth in synagogues around the world. Ruth reminds us that converts should be loved and that the Torah was given to all who wished to receive it. As a convert, I am grateful for such a message. However, what is often overlooked in the reading of Ruth is the resemblance between Ruth’s words and our modern wedding vows. Indeed, modern marriage vows are in The Bible. Ruth’s Words Echo Our Modern Marriage... Read more

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