Leaving Church by Barbara Brown Taylor5/27/2023 ![]() So, when he came to live with me, it took us a while to work into a rhythm. Somehow he ended up trying to find food on the streets in downtown Houston, then he ended up at B.A.R.C., the term that Houstonians call the huge dog pound in central Houston from which most dogs never emerge, then he spent several months in foster care, then I found him on the internet. ![]() I don’t know much about the first year and a half of Maynard’s life. So, why do you read the Bible? Is it to get answers to life’s deepest questions? Is it to find your way through this somewhat murky environment that we call our world? Or maybe it is just to make you feel better, maybe not so alone, maybe not so hopeless? For whatever reasons we read the Scriptures, we really would rather they be clear cut, maybe some simple if-then statements, like “if you obey God’s commandments, then you shall live.” That’s what we found in places in the Old Testament. ![]()
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