The Story of Landon Shae

Wednesday December 12th, 2012, Vanessa and I didn't know it, but our life was about to be completely changed. 

Christmas: A Revolution

In this large composition of writings that is commonly referred to as the Bible, there are only two narrative accounts of Jesus' birth that we call the Christmas story. One is a writing titled Matthew and the other is a writing titled Luke and essentially it is two authors attempting to give pictures of Jesus being born because they believed it had major implications for the way the world works.

What the authors were not trying to do was give us something to celebrate on December 25th. At no point in their composing this story of Jesus' life did they say, "Ya know, I think I should put the story of Jesus being born in there because it will really just complete the 'Christmas' season." There were no Christmas Eve services, no quaint little holiday that they were trying to capture. Rather, these authors were up to something bigger.

Eating Our Way Back to the Garden

[Reimagining the Dietary Laws]

In the Hebrew Bible there is a book titled Leviticus. It one of those books that a lot of people begin reading and, slowly, the reading tapers off and few ever really finish it. 

The book gets its name from one of the twelve tribes of ancient Israel, the tribe of Levi, which happens to be the tribe full of priests that helped lead the community and the nation to live together with God. So as you can imagine, if they decided to get together to write a book, it would definitely be interesting.