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March 25, 2026

In the Bible, Improbable Coincidences Are Evidence of Divine Providence

A comedy writer looks at scriptural narratives.

As a veteran writer of television comedy now enrolled in a Christian seminary, Rob Long was surprised to find that what was once the insider jargon of the writers’ room is now freely bandied about by seminarians in the classroom. And not just seminarians. “I think of myself as the showrunner of my synagogue,” a rabbi told a curious Long inquiring about the nature of his position. Long attempts to apply some of these concepts to the Bible, revealing something about the text itself:

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