If you live in America and eat grocery store turkey every year for Thanksgiving, you have no idea what real turkey is like. I didn’t either, until I spent Thanksgiving overseas and got blindsided by how weird we are. A little over ten years ago, I was living in southern Russia. I studied at a …
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What happened when someone actually wanted to wash my feet
Modern insights into Biblical footwashing John 13:1-17 *Note: this is part of a series on how living in Eurasia affected my understanding of the Bible. Please head over to my post “Birthday Cake for Chickens“ to catch my explanation and disclaimer there if you haven’t yet. In my Western life, I had only ever seen footwashing in …
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