G.O.D. - Good Old Days

What was so good about the Good Old Days - and what went wrong?  Reading through 1 & 2 Samuel then 1 &2 Kings from Pentecost to Labour Day 2024, with audio reading of Everett Fox’ Schocken Bible translation, and notes - warning: lots of violence, more cautionary tales than role models!

In-Creedable.

When your dogma runs over your karma, let’s remind you that’s nothing new! Through Easter Season 2024, start each week with a credal statement from one of first centuries of the Common Era, followed daily by a heresy from that century - do you recognize anybody you know?

Not Ready to Read?

From Transfiguration Sunday February 19 2024, through Lent and Easter seasons, to Pentecost Sunday May 28, you’re invited to ‘5-10 minutes a day, 30-60 minutes a week’ over 99 days, 14 weeks, browsing the bible, ‘the book we trust and dust’!

Deuteronomy - Retell, Retail Torah

Summer 2022, reading the ‘second book of the law’, last book of Torah, 5th in your bible - with audio and notes from Bill - but ending the podcast experiment!

Numbered - Footnotes

May and June 2022, reading a chapter a day of Numbers, the fourth book of Torah, front end of your bible, ‘the book we trust and dust’ - audio and comments from Bill

Glib Liberals Read Leviticus

Easter Season 2022, read Leviticus: ‘Consumption and Sacrifice’, 'Purity and Pollution’ - subversive stuff!  Chapter a day, 5-10 minutes, audio and notes at website and podcast!

Exodus: Wrecking and Remaking Normal

Follow the 40 chapters of Exodus over the 40 days of Lent - 5-10 minutes a day, 30-60 minutes a week - summaries on Sundays to start the week - www.hereticslikeus.com and  podcast Heretics Like Us

Heretics Like Us - Podcast

GENESIS: The Toledot of Us and Them

January-February of 2022, listen to a chapter a day of Genesis, and a few comments - 5-10 minutes a day, 30-60 minutes a week - time well wasted as Omicron’s winter closes in on us! Search  Spotify podcasts, Google podcasts, or click here

The Nicene Creed

‘The 300’s’ - fourth century of the Common Era - the great ecumenical councils, starting in Nicaea, set normative creeds, with the backing of Emperor Constantine’s conversion to not only exclude but punish those who did not agree!

The Athanasian Creed

‘The 400’s’ - fifth century of the Common Era - the rest of the ecumenical councils, ‘Chalcedonian’ Christianity squeezing out the Coptic and ‘autocephalous’ churches.  Education and Elaboration - can you believe it?

Anathemas

The 500’s. - sixth century of the Common Era - Fussing about Filioque - as we barbarians run Europe, the Second Council of Constantinople lists many reasons that my tribe thinks that your tribe should be avoided!

Allahu Akbar

The 600’s - seventh century of the Common Era  - Mohamad’s century, the rise of Islam - Allahu Akbar, God is Greater - was that so bad for heretics like us?