I’m learning how to make and use sourdough starter. Here are some cinnamon rolls made with the sourdough starter discard. I’m not sure why it is called that since you don’t actually throw it away. It has been a fun but challenging experience making sourdough starter from scratch. Baking is a nice distraction. I enjoy it. Can’t wait to try these tomorrow.

“Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος” is the opening phrase to the Gospel According to John. John’s intentional choice of words in the Greek puts an end to any notion that Jesus, the Word (ὁ λόγος), is “a god” or not God at all (Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and The Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints all come to mind). The preposition Ἐν + the dative case of the noun ἀρχῇ, which is normally translated “In the beginning,” indicates that John is talking about eternity past before anything was created, including time. This means that, the Word, has eternally existed, meaning that the Word has no beginning and that the Word can be none other than God because only God is eternal. So John states here in the first part of John 1:1, “In the beginning (eternity past before the creation of time or anything else) was (existed) the Word.” John then intentionally uses another very specific choice of words in the next phrase “καὶ ...