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Making Sense of the God of Old in a 546-Sextillion-Mile-In-Diameter Universe
This blog series is taken, more or less as is, from my latest book How The Bible Actually Works. You can read the first posts in this series here and here. The Bible is, if anything, a book, the purpose of which is to tell us what God is like. Some say that “revealing” God to […]
Tiptoeing Around the Touchy Almighty
This blog series is taken, more or less as is, from my latest book How The Bible Actually Works. You can read the first post in this series here. I mentioned earlier that every issue we’ve looked at thus far—what to do with a fool, how to look at wealth, how to rear children, how […]
Does Your God Recycle?
This blog post is taken, more or less as is, from my latest book How The Bible Actually Works. Should we be the least bit surprised when we, along with some biblical writers, find ourselves wandering beyond the words in the Bible as we think about what God is like, sensing that the God we […]
A Thought about Easter and the Bizarre Christian Faith
I have no problem saying—in fact, I think is it good and healthy to say—that I have, and have always had, some intellectual barriers to the Christian faith. Not all the time, but enough of the time. As I said I don’t mind admitting it, because to do otherwise would be a colossally silly waste […]
Using Truth as a Weapon
Just a few weeks ago the Methodist Church, which represents over 12 Million Christians in America, met in St. Louis, for their General Conference. In a special session they voted on what was called The Traditional Plan, which kept church rules in place that disallowed same-sex marriages and gay clergy. In one presentation, Nancy Denardo, […]
Can the Bible Be “Trusted” and What Does That Even Mean?
The Bible bears the marks of the messiness of the diverse human drama. Christian theology, if it wishes to be compelling and speak into people’s lives, needs to incorporate that fact, not shy away from it.
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Robert Alter has spent most of his life committed to studying the Bible and the last two decades creating an entirely new translation of the Old Testament. Pete and Jared talk about some of the insights he has gained from seeing the Bible as a literary masterpiece. RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: “The Art of Biblical […]
