The blog of the Ancient Mariner: Gibeath Haaraloth

Thursday, 5 January 2006

Gibeath Haaraloth

The namers of places in the bible had a certain sense of humour sometimes.

I was reading Joshua this morning. In chapter 5 they recount how Israel, after 40 years in the desert and the old generation being replaced, needed to be circumcised.

That's probably a million males.

The place they were done was Gibeath Haaraloth.

It means 'Hill of foreskins'.

How big a hill would a million foreskins make?

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Some years ago I wrote about things relating to church I thought were important then and probably still do to an extent. So many of us want to make sure stuff is right, trying to differentiate ourselves, yet also often miss the more important stuff, the bigger picture.

I watch various people doing church in different ways and wonder how much God is concerned about our 'important' bits of theology or stances we take. The church stream I was once so pleased to be part of is starting to look like every other church to me, so maybe it's time I had a little humility instead of pride at being different.