Fearsome Bizarro Splendor

Justin and Jewelle tackle the strangest book yet in their Biblical trek: Ezekiel — a prophet whose volume knob is stuck at maximum, whose visions are gorgeous and bizarre in equal measure, and whose performance art includes eating a scroll, cooking over dung, and being forbidden to mourn his own wife. They talk about the opening vision of the cherubim and the throne as a man reaching for every image he has to describe the indescribable, about Ezekiel's vocational grief as a priest who never gets a temple, and about how to handle Ezekiel's imagery of sexual violence (which neither of them would have chosen). And they find the good news where Ezekiel does: the glory of the Lord leaves Jerusalem and goes to be with the exiles. Part one (Ezekiel 1–24) of two episodes on Ezekiel.