Rediscover Your Bible

The Skinny on the Bible—Pervasive Interpretive Pluralism

November 27, 2011
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His main argument looks to be this: the plain fact of pervasive interpretive pluralism, especially by biblicists themselves looking at the same Bible, makes biblicism bunk. In other words, if what biblicists said about the Bible was true, they’d agree with each other.

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Who Did You Say the Word of God Is?

October 9, 2011
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If I told you Christians are completely wrong about what the Bible says the Word of God is, would you be interested in knowing what the Bible says is the right answer?

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Global Sacred Literature & Your Personal Canon

April 30, 2011
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When we give people a place to seriously engage Global Sacred Literature, we help them become better people.

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The 3 Bookcases in Our Lives

April 15, 2011
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My wife and I love books, so it should come as little surprise that we have three sets of bookcases scattered throughout the house, each carrying a different meaning.

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You and Your Lonely Bible

December 8, 2010
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Now, before we even get started, let’s get one thing clear. This isn’t going to be that old chestnut of evangelical sermons, the one about how you should be reading your Bible daily (and, more to the point, about how you’re not). I’m not going to berate you for not having your nightly “quiet time” where you read a verse and half of scripture.

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What Gets to Be Scripture

December 7, 2010
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One of the curious things about the actual biblical text—minus the verse numbers, chapter numbers, book titles, and table of contents that were added much later—is that the text itself doesn’t draw a limit around what books make the cut and what don’t.

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Your Own. Personal. Bible.

November 28, 2010
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When I was a teenager, I had the pleasure of working at Mardel, a Christian bookstore connected to the Hobby Lobby empire. A pleasure, because working at Mardel was my high school dream job.

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