Brandan Robertson Lesbians in the Bible? Say WAHT?! a discussion with Rev. Brandan Robertson https://anchor.fm/tldrbible/episodes/Ruth-evu4dc
Madeleine L'Engle We are helped to remember God, through the angel Gabriel, called on Mary to do what, in the world’s eyes is impossible, and instead of saying, “I can’t,” she replied immediately, “Be it unto me…
Jana Riess On Joss Whedon, cancel culture, and the Bible I won’t be torching my Harry Potter books or throwing my Buffy DVDs on a bonfire. I’d have to throw my Bible to the flames as well. by Jana Riess…
Diana Butler Bass Zacchaeus Zacchaeus thought that gratitude was a political structure of benefactors and beneficiaries that he could manipulate for his own benefit. Then Jesus called him down from that tree and invited…
Brandan Robertson “I really am learning that God doesn’t show partiality to one group over another. “ Another place that this forward movement takes place in Scripture is in the Book of Acts 10. For the sake of time, I’ll summarize the account. The Apostle Peter receives…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons To de-radicalize the story, to make it anything other than extreme, is to reduce the clear message of the early church. “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” a rich young ruler asked Jesus (Mark 10:17). Many conservative Christians offer an easy answer for that question, claiming that…
Brian McLaren Set the Story Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: As I allowed Genesis, Exodus, and Isaiah—rather than Plato, Aristotle, and Caesar—to set the stage for the biblical…
Brandan Robertson You have heard it said Now, the next question that naturally arises is this: If truth is progressive, then is it possible for something that was once considered to be true to become no longer…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons “The better we know Jesus, the more social do his thoughts and aims become” Today, we mostly think of social justice as a secular movement sometimes associated with progressive causes that are fighting the “Christian right” and other conservative groups. But many of the…
Brandan Robertson God is still speaking The idea that God stopped speaking at the close of the canon is a modern notion dreamed up by the Protestant Reformers some 500 years ago. But the Catholic and…
Brandan Robertson Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God, the renewal of the world, would happen progressively over time The question of “What is the Gospel” isn’t a hard one to answer. Jesus explicitly states it many times throughout the Gospel accounts of the New Testament. In Mark…
Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons Fundamentalism Today “fundamentalism” has come into common usage to mean a strict resistance to change in any religious context, but at that time the word was new. It derives from a…
Brian McLaren Interpretation Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: As I look back on my own experience with the Bible, I figure I've heard or given over…
Barbara Brown Taylor Could it be that our favorite verses are the ones that make us feel most right? In the Christian New Testament, Jesus himself admits that he does not know everything there is to know about God. When his disciples ask him to tell them about the…
Brian McLaren Inspiration Today’s guest quote is by Brian McLaren, from A New Kind of Christianity: So we judge internal tension and debate as flaws or failures in the components of a constitution, but…
Brian McLaren Not a Constitution I freely acknowledge that Plato and Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius and Einstein, Muhammad and the Buddha all say interesting and brilliant and inspiring things, and I can learn a lot from…
Uncategorized Something This Protestant Learned from a Jew About Reading the Bible: A Story by Pete Enns https://peteenns.com/something-this-protestant-learned-from-a-jew-about-reading-the-bible-a-story/
Uncategorized The Saint John’s Bible Illuminates the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women Professor Lauren Winner from the Duke Divinity School brought The Saint John's Bible to the women's prison, where the opportunity to view renowned art is a rarity. What happened next…
Erin Robinson Hall The Gospel According to Joshua Sometimes words come back to me. They linger long enough to make me wonder what I am supposed to hear in them now. I wrote years ago about my…
