Defilement is a more dangerous idea than guilt. If you do wrong, then you can do better. But when you are seen as defiling, there’s no redeeming that. The word for a person you disagree with is opponent. The word for a person you've decided is contamination is nothing at all, because you don't negotiate with a stain. You remove it. And the people doing the removing have never in history thought of themselves as cruel. They think of themselves as clean.

The Untitled, Open-Ended Study Bible The Rev. Megan Collins Sunday, August 2, 2026 Genesis 30 & 34 Watch | Listen What we’re doing today is going to be hard work. We promised when we started this series of preaching through the Bible that we wouldn’t just skip over a passage because it was difficult (which was a promise that was far easier to make back in the creation narratives than now, as we get into the messy human stories of the Old Testament.) But, difficult or not, it

Genesis 28–33 The Untitled, Open-Ended Study Bible July 26, 2026 Rev. David Collins Watch | Listen This morning we’re going to look at Jacob’s story, and it’s a really good one. If you haven’t read it before, or you just read the individual parts of it, you’ve really missed out. So read it for yourself. Don’t just take my word for it. To really understand and interpret any particular event, or statement, in the Bible, you need to understand how it relates to the whole. There