I’ve been thinking about Pharoah’s daughter. In the beginning of the Exodus narrative, the Pharaoh orders all Hebrew baby boys be killed. The Hebrew midwives, Shiphrah and Puah, refuse to do it, and lie to Pharaoh and his men to try to keep the babies safe. When...

"Miraccident": A portmanteau I just made up of miracle and accident. In his book, Hell: A Search for a Christian Ecology, academic Timothy Morton makes a radical argument for the beauty, strangeness, and unpredictability of everything we consider a given. His point is...