The Iran War Is Changing the Situation in Gaza
But the defeat of the Islamic Republic is no panacea.
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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:
But the defeat of the Islamic Republic is no panacea.
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A comedy writer looks at scriptural narratives.
Immune to false gods because he adhered to the one God.
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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