[Announcement:] Send me your Bible questions, I guess!
Bible 2: Revenge of the Murder-Bears
All right, so!
I ran that poll on whether you all would be interested in reading a regular Q&A column about the Bible, and the response was overwhelmingly positive. More than 90% of those who voted were down with the idea (a statistical improbability!)—plus one reader who threatened to cancel his subscription1 and one who threatened to kill me, but my security detail assures me that they’re almost positive they can probably thwart at least one attempt on my life, they think, maybe. (They also assure me that they’ll force that one other guy to stay subscribed.)
Soooo, we’ll go ahead and start this thing up whenever I get a good question. Eight of you checked the “I’d submit a question” box in the poll, so the ball’s in your court now: If you have a question about the Bible, please send it to luke.t.harrington@gmail.com. (Bible-adjacent questions are cool too: apocrypha, theology, Christian history, etc.) Please also tell me if you want me to use your real name, or a pseudonym, or no name, or whatever else. I’m hoping to make this a general interest column, so I will take questions from all comers: Christians, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, doubters, atheists, Zoroastrians, Rastafarians, whatever. (Not Scientologists, though. Even I have standards.)
If you’re not at all interested in this new series, you can easily edit your subscription preferences by going here and unchecking the box (currently labeled “As-yet untitled Bible thing”). I promise my feelings won’t be hurt (but you will be hearing from my lawyer).
Anyway, in the meantime, help me decide on a name for this thing (note that option #4 is abbreviated):
*note: The full title is Ask a Reluctant Spokesman for a Dying Religion, but Substack’s poll feature doesn’t allow for a response that long.
I know it looks like two readers threatened to cancel, but one of those was actually me clicking on the poll accidentally. Hard to blame my subconscious, tbh