Episodes

What happens when you read Easter through the Divine Council worldview? In this special episode, Carey reflects on how biblical theology and the Divine Council worldview reshaped her understanding of the gospel, the cross, an...

We continue into the flood narrative by closely examining Genesis 6:17–18. What at first looks like a small textual unit turns out to be a concentrated picture of divine judgment, de-creation, preservation, and covenant. Vers...

In this episode, Carey takes a different approach to the question of Noah’s Ark’s location. Rather than trying to “solve” the mystery or defend a favorite site, this episode asks a more basic question: how should we weigh the...

What exactly is Noah’s ark? In this episode, we examine the construction details in Genesis 6 and compare them with ancient Near Eastern flood traditions to see what the biblical text is and is not trying to do. We look at th...

What does Genesis 6:3 mean when God says, “My Spirit shall not abide in man forever… his days shall be 120 years”? Is this a countdown to the flood, a limit on human lifespan, or a broader boundary marker announcing divine ju...

Oral tradition can function as real evidence—sometimes. But it’s not automatically reliable, and it isn’t always “just a telephone game,” either. In this episode, we lay down guardrails for how to evaluate worldwide flood tra...

Last week we talked about why oral tradition can be trustworthy. This week we widen the lens: a lot of what we assume about “oral tradition” also applies to written tradition, because in the ancient world writing and orality ...

We sometimes assume that written = reliable and oral = fragile — like oral tradition is basically a centuries-long telephone game. But that’s not how real oral cultures work, and it’s not even how human memory works. In this ...

Were the Nephilim basically superheroes? Genesis 6 gives us “mighty men,” “heroes,” and “men of renown” language—but the flood narrative isn’t inviting admiration. Instead, this episode reframes that “superhero” instinct as s...

This week we’re back in the Flood narrative—but we zoom out to follow one biblical metaphor across the whole storyline: “blotting out.” This is a frame-semantics-heavy episode where we build what I’m calling the erasure frame...

In Genesis 6, how do we get from “sons of God and daughters of men” to a world “filled with violence” — without leaning on 1 Enoch as the primary interpretive lens? In this episode, Carey builds an intra-biblical case that fo...

In the finale of the Fire series, Carey traces eschatological fire across Scripture—not as a single “hellfire” image, but as a matrix of scenes where fire unveils , judges , purifies , and ultimately makes creation fit for Go...

In this episode, Carey connects the “fire series” to a bigger question: what does it mean for God’s holy presence to be “distributed” through the Church—and even into the world—often in spite of us? From Genesis to Pentecost ...

Where do we actually see atonement in Genesis—before the Levitical system even exists? In this episode, Carey uses frame semantics to map the Hebrew “atonement” word-group ( kipper and its conceptual neighborhood) across the ...

This week, Carey continues the Purity Series by digging into Matthew Thiessen’s Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism —and uses it as a springboard to talk about...

In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey sits down with Courtney Trotter of Kairos Classroom for a deep-dive into how Scripture portrays God’s appearances—especially the debated “Angel of the LORD,” and the often-ove...

In this episode we head back into Genesis 6 and ask what it means that Noah was “blameless in his generations.” Is this about genetic purity and Nephilim DNA… or about covenant faithfulness in a violently corrupt world? Worki...

In this episode, Carey continues the fire in Scripture series by following the holy fire of God into the furnace—where His presence purifies without consuming. We trace how Isaiah and Daniel picture God’s burning holiness as ...

What if fire really does fall from heaven…and the nation still doesn’t change? In this episode, Carey walks through Elijah’s showdown with Baal, the prophetic lawsuit pattern, Psalm 82, and how Jesus redirects our zeal so we ...

In this episode of Genesis Marks the Spot , Carey continues tracing the theme of fire through Scripture—this time by pairing it with the biblical theme of glory and the language of God as a “consuming fire” and “jealous God.”...

This episode launches a new mini-series on the theme of fire in Scripture and how it works as more than just a judgment or “end times” metaphor. Fire marks boundaries, tests fitness for nearness, guards holy space, and signal...

In this sweeping synthesis episode, Carey zooms out from Mesopotamian exorcism texts to contrast ancient magic/technique with the Bible’s holiness/presence frame. We explore how Scripture attributes sickness and calamity to G...

Concluding the mini-series reading from Udug-hul (Udug-hul) Tablet 12 , a Mesopotamian exorcism/purification text, and tracing how a single goat in this ritual ends up doing several jobs—substitute, container of breath, apotr...

This episode continues last week’s deep dive (Ep. 149) into Udug-hul Tablet 12 , exploring how ancient Mesopotamians understood purity, sacred space, demons, and ritual —and how that compares (and collides) with the Bible’s w...