Way Back in the Long Ago
is a campfire story told by a group of old men.
The tribe is listening to the story of the Long Ago.
You can listen, too, if you like.
Austral used stones as weapons.
Habilis created stone tools.
Aba Gvoha means “High Father”
Chutch Mim means “Water Cleaver”
Zorek Avnim means “Rock Thrower”
Ama Tala means “Lamb Mother”
Ushaa Shialom means “Peacemaker”
Belteshazzar means “Daniel”
The Migdal Eder was a stone tower in a pasture outside of town in the Long Ago.
Kairos moment: The ancient Greeks had two words for time. Chronos was the relentless march of chronological time. Kairos was a pregnant moment in time, an inflection point of consequence.
“Way Back in the Long Ago” Chapters
- The Nothing
- You are the MotherFather
- The Dead Man’s Name was Austral
- The Mirror
- He was Old, Old, Old
- The Lamb on the Mountain
- The Knife of Aba Gvoha
- Chutch Mim and the Princess
- Powerful Curses
- Zorek Avnim and the Migdal Eder
- The Monster in the Valley
- He Slips Quietly Away
- Four Young Men Appear
- The Living Voice
- The Astronomers Arrive
- Dinner with Friends
- Why Do You Look so Surprised?
- You Will Have Your Own Bedroom
“The Journey of His Followers” Chapters
- “I don’t believe in God”
- A Blue-Collar Man
- The Bride of Christ
- College and Religion
- Things Ushaa Shialom Said
- Pure Christianity is Not a Religion
- Jesus was Not Killed by Atheism
- To God be the Glory
- Green Flannel-graph
- Holy, Holy, Holy!
- The Problem with Every Sacred Text
- The Worst of It
- What a Friend We Have in Jesus
- The Same Yesterday, Today, and Forever
- The God I Grew Up With
- Wolves at War
- Be Thou My Vision
- The Full Substance of Faith
- Compassion is the Antitoxin
- The Tip You Leave on a Table
- Weird Christians
- Then My Soul Bursts Forth into Praise
- Closing Comments from the Narrator
Commentary and Downloads
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