Reclaiming Library · Entry 03 in the reading path. New here? Begin at Start Here. Two verses in Leviticus — 18:22 and 20:13 — have been made to carry more condemnation per syllable than any other lines in scripture. They have been read at funerals of people they helped kill. So this entry does what […]
Category Archives: Reclaiming Library
The weaponized texts, answered by name — cited and teachable.
Reclaiming Library · Entry 04 in the reading path. New here? Begin at Start Here. Romans 1:26–27 is the passage modern condemnation leans on hardest, because it sits in the New Testament and sounds, in English excerpt, like a general verdict. It is neither general nor a verdict. It is the setup of a rhetorical […]
Reclaiming Library · Entry 02 in the reading path. New here? Begin at Start Here. There are gender-variant people in the Bible. Not implied, not read-in, not “if you squint” — named, addressed, and honored, in the Hebrew prophets and in the founding narrative of the church. The clobber-verse tradition survives by never mentioning them. […]
Reclaiming Library · Entry 01 — the beginning of the reading path. New here? Start Here maps the shelves. “God made them male and female.” Five words from Genesis 1:27, deployed as if they were a taxonomy with a locked door. This entry reads the creation accounts as Hebrew literature — which is to say, […]
Reclaiming Library · Entry 05 in the reading path — where the argument leaves the Bible and enters the historical record. New here? Begin at Start Here. “Trans people are new.” It is the quietest weapon in the arsenal — no verse required, just an assumption that people like us appeared last decade. This entry […]