Two sides to every story

And sometimes, the Bible tells them both.  We saw this with the creation stories, and it happens again in Genesis. Today’s reading tells  us how when Laban mistreated Jacob and kept changing his wages, God made it all ok because God made the flock only produce the kind of sheep that would be Jacob’s.  It [...]

The Trickster Tricked

That’s the title my old children’s Bible gives to this section.  After playing all those tricks on others, Jacob gets tricked himself. It’s a story that (in some form) gets told in every culture I can think of.  In Native American myth, there is usually a character specifically known as the Trickster (often a coyote, [...]