He went and ruined one of the best stories.

I’m drunk by the time Abraham and Isaac come down the mountain.

I have to buy yet another rapture-advent calendar.

Particularly folks who can navigate this realm of political violence easily, we need not judge the reaction.

There is a song of deliverance on the shore.
There is a song of mourning back in Egypt.
And there is a silence in heaven.

Let us listen,
let us learn,
and let us make something new.

This isn't necessarily a rebuke of the reaction on shore. There is some sense of relief when a soldier can no longer chase and harm. To listen to Miriam is to hear the violent history endured.

But it is perhaps an image of reaction and response. How we react will not necessarily be how we remember.

The song echoes across the shore and rises into the heavens. The angels looking on began to join in the chorus and brought this song before God.

God silenced the angels.

God told them "my handiwork is drowning in the sea, and you want to sing?"

(Sanhedrin 39b)

Christian Nationalism argues for two genders, but can’t make it to the second story.

True. It’s quite amazing how much relief people feel when their doubts/disbelief are honored and they are truly welcome to be/remain a part of the community. It might even be understood as a liberation.

Correct. They still abide by a traditional framework within the Catholic Church.

Nothing wrong or bad about that. I just have a different anthropology and theology. Spong, Moltmann, Butler-Bass, Brown-Taylor, Moss III, and Rohr are more my speed.