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Well, it took us almost three years, but we made it to the end of Genesis. Now, as we look back on the first book of the Bible and try to make meaning around it, we are giddy to be join…

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We say goodbye to Daddy Jacob, and in his final moments he blesses all of his sons--though some of them seem a little more like curses to us. We follow Jacob and Joseph to the ends of t…

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Joseph comes clean and confronts his brothers on what they did to him all those years ago. But instead of punishing them further, he tells them it all turned out for the best and embrac…

The Joseph cycle continues. Now Joseph is the second most powerful person in the known world, and his brother's have fallen on hard times. When they show up in Egypt to beg for food, they don't reco…

We're back to the story of Joseph, as our young dreamer finds himself in Egypt in the service of a eunuch named Potiphar. While Joseph distinguishes himself via his excellent leadership skills, his …

We take a brief interlude in the story of Joseph for some interpersonal drama between Joseph's brother Judah and his daughter-in-law Tamar. When Judah tries to screw the young woman over (pun sort o…

Rachel's oldest son, Joseph, is a teenager now, and he is... different. His brothers hate him and his father favors him. He is fashion-forward and he sees the future in dreams. One day, far from hom…

It's another challenging episode as we look at the story of Dinah. Leah and Jacob's only daughter, Dinah, is "violated" by a prince of Shechem. The young man then offers to pay her bride price to Ja…

We have arrived at one of the most iconically queer scenes in the book of Genesis, but first, Jacob is reunited with his estranged brother, Esau, whom he screwed over so long ago. They make up, much…

Imagine having a rivalry with your younger sister growing up. Then imagine you both wind up married to the same man. THEN imagine you, your sister, and your two handmaids have 13 children between yo…

Twinning has never been so saucy. We meet two feisty fetuses, Jacob and Esau, twin sons of Rebekah and Isaac. When their parents play blatant favorites, the twins wind up competing against one anoth…

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The sun sets on Sarah and Abraham's time as matriarch and patriarch, and in their place, we meet, Rebekah, a buff twink maiden who will determine the course of the future. Rebekah and I…

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J, Sue, and David catch up on personal life developments from the past year, including a new human and a marriage! Then they outline what the next season of It's in the Book: A Queer Bi…

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As J, Sue, and David gear up to tape Season 2, J uses their post-COVID convalescence to go back through Season 1 and make some corrections and expansions that they've discovered in the …

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We're late, we know. A lot has changed for J and Sue since last spring, but they're excited to update you on the future of this show and about the release of the new EP Songs from Belov…

How do we make meaning from a 3000-year-old story that asks a father to kill his son and rewards him for being willing? We discuss real and metaphorical child sacrifice in ancient religion and ask w…

A special interlude episode looking at the biblical Annunciations of unnatural children such as Isaac and Jesus. And Sue and J have an annunciation of their own...

David is on vacation this week. We…

Forget what you think you know about Sodom and Gomorrah. The cities of the plain invoke God's wrath for a myriad of reasons that have nothing to do with sexual orientation. After the iconic brimstone…

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Abraham and Sarah get their names changed and Abraham does a holy body modification as God announces the elderly couple will have a son. J talks about their biblical penis theory that a…

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In another challenging story, J, David, and Sue begin to look at the two Abrahamic Covenant stories and the story in between them: that of Hagar the Handmaid. Hagar can be read as an ea…