biblical interpretation
Tourists search for Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia – but does a geographical location for pivotal Bible event even exist?
By Jacob F. Love — July 31, 2023
(The Conversation) — A scholar of the Hebrew Bible argues that very little is known about the location of Mount Sinai, and it is likely that it was once part of a foundational legend.
‘Purple church’ pastors mull leadership strategies in polarizing times
By Yonat Shimron — March 27, 2023
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (RNS) — The Cooperative Baptist Fellowship of North Carolina held a leadership forum to help pastors figure out how to speak out without alienating half of their members.
The debate over women pastors is a Southern Baptist smoke screen
By Laura Levens — May 14, 2021
(RNS) — The fiery arguments distract from constructive conversations about entrenched racism, Christian nationalism and sexual abuse.
Why reading the Bible with reason and emotion alone doesn’t satisfy us
By Jason Gaboury — October 1, 2020
(RNS) — Our two usual modes of reading Scripture, rationalism and emotionalism, ignore an essential way that we make connections and maintain satisfying relationships with God.
Evangelical leaders are speaking up about race — but will this new focus last?
By Adelle M. Banks — July 1, 2020
(RNS) — Highlights of a forthcoming study, which looks at racism, biblical interpretation and church cultures, may indicate a long struggle ahead.
Faith like a child: An interview with a ‘childist’ biblical scholar
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 13, 2019
(RNS) — Julie Faith Parker, associate professor of biblical studies at General Theological Seminary in New York City, is one of the pioneering scholars in the field of childist biblical interpretation — a term she helped introduce in biblical studies in the last decade.
In new book, Rachel Held Evans gets ‘Inspired’ by the Bible
By Emily McFarlan Miller — June 15, 2018
(RNS) — In her fourth book, Evans explores what the Bible is and how it’s read. She describes its origin stories and resistance stories, investigates their contexts and interpretations and even retells a few along the way.
Mega-church pastor Adam Hamilton’s scandalous take on Scripture
By Jonathan Merritt — May 1, 2014
The pastor of the largest United Methodist congregation in America is sparking intense debate with his provocative new take on the Bible.
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