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[154] Fantastical beasts and where to find them (in the Bible)
Description
It’s a Biblical exploration of the strange, fantastical and mysterious. From Leviathan to unicorns to UAPs, we’re inspiring curiosity and awe as we see what these strange occurrences and observations in the Bible tell us about the Divine.
In this episode:
[00:00 ] Introducing a little levity
[02:01 ] God-human hybrids
[05:18 ] Sea monster
[07:11 ] The talking donkey
[09:25 ] Horned beasts
[10:13 ] Giants
[11:39 ] Insanely old people
[14:08 ] Horned Moses
[15:59 ] Four-legged fowl
[17:14 ] Moses’ body
[18:41 ] The walking dead (where did they go?)
[22:15 ] Cursed with hemorrhoids
[23:29 ] Close encounter of the third kind
[25:57 ] Expressing something of the Divine
Compass is a production of United Methodist Communications and is hosted and produced by Ryan Dunn.
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