The history of American Bible interpretation can give us some answers. Along with workers worried about their jobs and conspiratorial types worried about a robot takeover, many scholars and pastors ...
How do liberal Christians interpret the Bible? We begin with an understanding that the Bible is not a single book. This is more critical to scriptural interpretation than it might appear. The Bible is ...
Interpreting the word of God can be more difficult when the words of the Bible get in our way. Put another way: God’s word is so much more than words. I began to realize that back in the mid-’80s ...
Someone once compared the way people read the Bible with three kinds of home plate umpires. One umpire calls them the way he sees them. Another sees them the way he calls them. And a third kind calls ...
Do you wonder how to read the Bible? Let it read you. When it comes to reading our sacred texts, the trend seems to be read-the-Bible-in-a year schemes and app-based tools that provide access to our ...
Among U.S. Protestant churchgoers, most say they read Scripture regularly, but just 31% say Bible reading is a daily habit.