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This one's all about how humanity creates an ideal in divinity and then lives it out, not necessarily the other way around.
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• how two stories get drawn in to make political point in sacred texts.
• another combat myth if you're down to clown. 
• the unification of Egypt as the thing behind the thing.
• what is the Axial Age and how did humanity come to long for justice?
• how we create our gods and then our gods create us.
• Mark takes you through the evolution of divinity in a minute and a half.
• Otto considers giving his baby sis up for adoption... 

Send your emails to Eric this week. JK! We love you, TXT and RKRS!

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Age 14 at midnight I hear voices from the kitchen
I let my feet follow the sound as I let my ears listen
I walk upstairs and at the kitchen table I can see
That God is sitting with the Devil, sharing drinks and old stories...

--Ritt Momney, (If) the Book Doesn't Sell.

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Mark and Eric

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This one's all about what happens when you combine religion and politics, in the ancient world and today. Journey back to ancient Egypt with Mark and Eric once again to explore the lore of the Memphis Creation Story.

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• how the thing behind the thing in sacred texts can oftentimes be very political.
• why there is always a danger in invoking God in politics.
• how Shabaka started an imperial cult, and how the Bible has a gnarly parallel.
• all about King Josiah's reform in 722 and centralizing cult for political gain.
• Eric can't resist a Star Wars Joke.
• Boom Shabaka-Laka-Laka. 

KK that's what we've got. We love you, TXT and RKRS!

You can contact Mark and Eric at www.textandrock.com or email [email protected].

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Suicide is easy.
What happened to the revolution?
--Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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Mark and Eric

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Here's the concluding episode on God and gender.

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• why it makes so many of us nervous to describe God as a He/Him.

• how viewing your sacred text as part of an ongoing discussion can set you free from frozen ideas about divinity.

• the movement from space in the Judeo-Christian tradition of naming God.

• what most moderns are actually talking about when they talk about God.

• a bit of speculation on what taking "biblical" gender and sexuality would actually mean... buckle up.

That's what we've got. much love TXT and ROCKERS!

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The magic is here for us all to feel
naming it isn't what makes it real
rushing around for us all to know
noticing isn't what makes it so.
--the Avett Brothers

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This one is a quick break from Egyptian lore to talk about God and gender...again. 

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• how if you back up a thousand years Iron Age sacred texts may have had a divine feminine instead of a male storm god.
• how the conception of the male storm god shifts to a loving father of the house by the time of Jesus... but it is trackable.
• whether we can conceive of a mother-goddess being in the primary text and rippling through interpretation in the same way...  had the sacred text of the Hebrew Bible been written earlier. I know, big waves.
• mother goddess figurine in the ancient Near Eastern Bronze Age  I-III.
• here comes the curve ball........... next week. ha!

That's what we've got. much love TXT and ROCKERS!

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I hate to interrupt while you're takin' it easy
Have you had a chance to look outside? (Take a look outside)
There's a fight going out on the lawn
And we wanna know whose side you're on
--Bad Cop/Bad Cop
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This one is a quick break from Egyptian lore to talk about God and gender

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• why God is male in the Hebrew Bible and how
• that gets interpreted all the way through the Bible, Talmud, and Quran.
• whether we should actually think of God as male part one. 
• the Canaanite storm-god combat myth behind the text of the Bible.

That's what we've got. much love TXT and ROCKERS!

You can contact Mark and Eric at www.textandrock.com or email [email protected].

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And even God herself 
has fewer plans than me. 
But she never helps me out when my scan's for free, though. 
She grabs a stick and then she pokes it at me.
When I say nothing. I say everything.
--Jack White
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This one is a quick break from Egyptian lore to talk about holding your life and tradition with joy rather than suffering.

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• why so many people take their religion so seriously that joy disappears.
• whether or not following God is supposed to be about suffering.
• the mystery of sacred moments that are the opposite of progress.
• Torah embodiment and first century, Galilean sages.
• could you embody your tradition with joy?
• puppy Moses sidetracks the show right on cue. Ha!

That's what we've got. much love TXT and ROCKERS!

You can contact Mark and Eric at www.textandrock.com or email [email protected].

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Only love is real. Only love is real.
I crush everything else based in ignorance and fear.
--MC Yogi

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This one is part two of two on the SO WHAT of an old creation story like ATUM RE.
Big idea is this: You might be rejecting a very old, Iron Age conception of God.

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• what God's ultimate goal for your life is probably not, and what it might be.
• how some conceptions of God need to be left in the dirt.
• why you have to take ancient stories about the gods one at a time.
• how to ask whether it is a click forward in the human evolution of divinity...or a step backward.
• Mark's adamant rejection of Sky Grandpas.
• the divine conceptions that really, profoundly help.

That's what we've got. much love TXT and ROCKERS!

You can contact Mark and Eric at www.textandrock.com or email [email protected].

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The waters are are a-rising
the old ship's going down.
--the Dropkick Murpheys

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This one is part one of two on the SO WHAT of an old creation story like ATUM RE.
Big idea is this: the conception of divinity is a moving target.

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• some notions of God are no longer helpful.
• how to consider each story where people try to name God, one at a time.
• how the Hammurabi stele can teach you more about Yahweh than church.
• divinity in the Iron Age: humans writ large, shiny, animal composites. 
• old gods shine. maybe you can too. ha!
• Mark relives the scariest scene from Indiana Jones franchise. Boo!

KK. much love TXT and ROCKERS!

You can contact Mark and Eric at www.textandrock.com or email [email protected].

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Get down Moses!
--Joe Strummer.

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Mark and Eric

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This one is all about the Egyptian creation story of Atum-Ra... and how it bounces off of other ancient Near Eastern texts and traditions.

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• how multiple versions of stories and legends sit side by side in the ancient world.
• all about Atum-Ra creating "the nine" primary  or "OG" Egyptian gods.
• ancient chaos waters as the starting point of ANE creation myths.
• why it matters that Atum-Ra creates through speech.
• how this ticks like a song with a cadence just like Genesis 1.
• the theme of creation by separation follows by filling the space with creatures.
• a beautiful hint that divinity is outside of the human construct of TIME. ha!

KK. much love TXT and ROCKERS!

You can contact Mark and Eric at www.textandrock.com.

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Walk like an Egyptian.
--the Bengals.

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Be good to each other!
Mark and Eric

For Text and Rock Poetry, Podcasts, and Video Content or to contact Mark and Eric, visit us at www.textandrock.com.

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