Bible for the People: A Rooted Community Project

05/11/2023

When we talked about Thomas I said John 14:6 could use a whole sermon. Someday that will happen, until then here is some food for thought.

05/11/2023

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Our purity systems, even those established with the best of intentions, do not make us holy. They only create insiders and outsiders. They are mechanisms for delivering our drug of choice: self-righteousness, as juice from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil runs down our chins. And....

05/04/2023

05/03/2023

Rabbi Harold Kushner died last week. His work on suffering and evil had an impact across religious traditions.

When Bad Things Happen. Modern Solutions to Jewish Suffering and Evil. Jewish Suffering and Evil. Jewish Ideas and Beliefs.

05/03/2023

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05/02/2023

Let’s look at how Jesus interpreted the Bible. It seems reasonable that if we are supposed to follow Jesus it might be helpful to follow how he uses...

04/27/2023

It's been a while! April has been wild but it's time to get back to regular posting - starting with this interview with Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer who focuses on interfaith dialogue. Here she talks about the different ways that Jews, Muslims, and Christians process the story of Abraham, Sarah and Hagar. Where we're coming from shapes how we read!
[Context Matters] Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer: Speaking Across Differences (Part 2)
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This is the second half of my conversation with Rabbi Nancy. We start with the affects of 9/11 on her multi-faith conversations. Then we move to the way such conversations have influence her career. And we finally talk about the Muslims, Jews, and Christians interpret the Sarah and Hagar narratives....

03/20/2023

Want to dig even deeper into how people have tried to make sense of Job's story?

Western philosophy begins, not with Plato, but elsewhere, and earlier, with the Book of Job. That is because the problem of evil is the central point where philosophy begins, and where it threatens to stop. So, if the task of philosophy is to show how the world is, or can be made, rational, then it....

03/14/2023

Today's song of lament..something different.
I'm not particularly a fan of Southern Gospel, but this hymn has been running through my head over the last several days and Vestal Goodman has the best version. Vestel and her husband Howard, both gone to glory now, were titans in the Southern Gospel world, as part of the Happy Goodmans, and also as solo artists. Vestal was a belter, a powerhouse, someone who could fill a room with her voice.

This weekend I stood beside the bed of one of my oldest and dearest friends who is nearing the end of her long journey with Huntington's disease. I told her old stories, rubbed her arms, stroked her face, quietly prayed an Anglican prayer for the dying over her; cried a little, laughed over memories with her family and other friends.

And then I got in my car and drove home. And I belted this song along with Vestal. Because sometimes, you just have to shout your lamentations to the only One who really understands.

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03/14/2023

A podcast discussion on how to teach the Bible to your children. Parents, what approach do you take? What are your hopes and concerns in sharing the Bible with children?
[The Bible For Normal People] Episode 7: Pete Enns and Jared Byas - Teaching the Bible to Your Children
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On this week's episode Jared and Peter talk about their experiences with the challenge of teaching the Bible to children. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-bible-for-normal-people/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Learn more about your ad choices. Visi...

03/09/2023

Today's song of lament.

03/09/2023

A wonderfully nerdy lesson in how the Hebrew scriptures were compiled.
[Exploring My Strange Bible] Making of the Bible Part 1 - The Making of the Old Testament Books
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In this series we explore how the Bible was written and the long process of its composition and manuscript history. The bible is a book with a very traceable history, it was not written in secret. The authors of these texts were of course humans, but they also claimed that through these human words....