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, here, here, and here. I trust no one will misunderstand my intentions. I don’t mean to compare the loss of a child to anything, let alone a […]
How the Bible Actually Works
Don’t Put God in a Box, Unless You Want to Be Swallowed by a Fish
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 serieshere and here and here. The book of Jonah tells the famous story of the prophet Jonah who wanted nothing to do with his divinely given assignment—to go to the city […]
Making Sense of the God of Old in a 546-Sextillion-Mile-In-Diameter Universe
We are all making sense of God – and many of us have looked to the Bible to do that. Yet, the Bible often sends us conflicting messages about who God is. This blog series is taken, more or less as is, from my latest book How The Bible Actually Works. You can read the first […]
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 […]
The Bible, Wisdom, and Our Sacred Responsibility
[The following is adapted from the conclusion of How the Bible Actually Works.] Christians and Jews have always been “reimagining” God—adapting the sacred past of their tradition to discern God’s presence here and now. That process of adapting the past is also baked directly into the Christian Bible itself, Old and New Testaments. The biblical […]
