Create From Chaos

Saucy Dumplings | A brief history of how we've interpreted Adam and Eve

From the moment this story spread, its audience have had questions. And across traditions — even within the traditions —thoughtful readers have come up with different answers. In this episode, Mara traces a brief history of how the story of Adam and Eve has been interpreted across centuries, and wonders whether some of those layers have settled so thick over the text that we've forgotten what lies beneath.

Mise En Place | The practice of prepping before interpreting

Professional kitchens run on mise en place — the discipline of preparing your ingredients before you start cooking. What might that look like for reading Scripture? In this episode, Mara pauses on the threshold of Genesis 2 to ask: who wrote this story, when, and from where? The answers are slippery, but perhaps the questions are still important ones to ask.

(Bonus) Season Two Recap | Learning to walk a winding path

In Season 2, Mara lifted the curtain on her inner world as a restless creator — the self-doubt that followed finishing Season 1, the loneliness of asking unsettling questions, and the growing reliance on companionship over certainty. From rabbinic wisdom to Carlo Rovelli's physics to a fictional story set on a misty morning — this recap traces the winding path of a season that refused to go in a straight line.

(Bonus) Season One Recap | Re-discovering the first page of the Bible

As Season 3 begins, a look back at where it all started. In Season 1, Mara turned to the seven-day creation story in Genesis with fresh eyes — and found a text far stranger and richer than she remembered. A God who hovers over chaos rather than destroying it. Humans made not just in God's image but as his image. A seventh day that is less about recovering from exhaustion and more about moving into a good home. This recap traces the discoveries that started it all, laced with songs that grew out of them.

Chasing Rabbits | Following curiosity into the next page of the book

Four months, an ice storm, a hurricane, and one very unexpected acceptance letter later — Mara returns to take stock of where this journey into the world of Genesis has brought her. From the burning curiosity that started it all, to the uncomfortable middle place she finds herself in now, this episode traces the rabbit holes of Seasons 1 and 2 and issues an invitation: to become like children again as Season 3 opens the second page of the Bible — the story of Adam and Eve.