Sometimes it’s not so much that we’re wrong. It’s that we perceive too little. We can harp on simple answers when we’d benefit more from deep study, or fixate on the footnotes when we’d be better off accounting for the people living out our theories (or even living well despite them). Unprotected Texts, one of the […]
Practicing faith responsibly
In Unprotected Texts, Jennifer Wright Knust reviews the internal complexity of the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Many voices, communities, and perspectives are part of the anthology we now call “the Bible,” and these many perspectives sit side-by-side, sometimes rather uncomfortably. The Bible’s polyvalence—its many-sidedness—isn’t something that only anti-religious readers perceive. Over centuries, Biblical scholars have […]
#2016AFConf: Wrath on the stand
Wrath theology didn’t fare so well at tonight’s first meeting of the Adventist Forum conference on nonviolence and atonement. With headliner Greg Boyd, and seven different respondants (two formal responses and five questions), the group challenged both the substance and the implications of theories about penal substitution’s wrathful deity. I tweeted quite a lot and […]
VIDEO: Reading With Different Ears: Amy-Jill Levine and Ethnocentrism
“While the New Testament may be seen as anti-Jewish, it need not be taken that way, because words inevitably mean different things to different readers. More problematic are those verses that on the surface appear quite benign, but when heard with different ears can be quite difficult. “[For example,] Galatians 3:28, which proclaims that in […]
Sabbath Wisdom: Words Matter
Almost every Sabbath morning, I share with my Twitter network a series of tweets rooted in an aspect of faith or religious ethics. These tweets, tagged #SabbathWisdom, are often inspired by study conversations or sermons at my church. A sermon about the power of the word resonated with me yesterday. I may have been primed by Friday’s […]
Sabbath Wisdom: Texts and Responsibility
Almost every Sabbath morning, I share with my Twitter network a series of tweets rooted in an aspect of faith or religious ethics. These tweets, tagged #SabbathWisdom, are often inspired by study conversations or sermons at my church. This morning’s series was far more extensive than usual, and I decided to share it with you as […]
