Seeing the Lamb's victory, recognizing its literary artistry, holding its temporal tensions, grounding it in Scripture, and receiving its pastoral comfort
How to Read the Bible
10 posts
Ten Easy Steps
The Bible serves as Spirit-inspired testimony pointing us to the actual revelation: the person of Jesus Christ. The Bible isn't trying to be the revelation—it's trying to show us where to find it.
Moving Beyond Surface-Level Interpretation
Why didn't the Bible—and Paul specifically—make their calls for justice more obvious? Why doesn't Paul more obviously call for the eradication of slavery? Why do modern readers have to do exegetical dances to get Scripture to mean what we want it to mean? Let&
Let's pretend that I have a bookshelf with 100 books on it. The only pretending here is that it's only one bookshelf, and only 100 books... Towards the top of the bookshelf I have a delightful book called A Man Called Ove. It's a
Christians oftentimes act like interpreting Scripture isn't hard (which isn't true). I think this is because admitting that's it's hard to interpret would be somehow denying its inspired status. Or, in the instances where they do admit that it is hard, they
Someone recently asked me: I’m confused by Elijah killing 450 prophets...that just seems so cruel and excessive. Like, if someone told me that worshipping/following God meant killing hundreds of people - or anyone - I’d be like “uhm I’m not sure about this God.” I