If you’ve been following this series from the beginning, you’ll know I’ve been tracing the arc of how my relationship with the Bible has slowly changed: the framework I inherited, the assumptions I absorbed before I knew they were assumptions, Read More …
If the last post was about stepping past the warning signs concerning the dangers of critical scholarship, this one is about what I found on the other side. As I hinted at last time, I had braced myself for a Read More …
If you read the last post, you know I ended it with something of a confession. Stepping into critical scholarship felt less like an intellectual exercise and more like quietly opening a door I’d been warned my whole life to Read More …
It took me a while to realize that the way I was reading the Bible wasn’t the only way to read it. It was one approach among many, already shaped, guided, and constrained by assumptions I didn’t know I was Read More …
When I look back on how I first learned to read the Bible, what strikes me isn’t so much what I was taught as what I wasn’t. No one ever pulled me aside and explained that Christians have understood this Read More …
For most of my life, even asking whether the Bible was “God-given” would have felt borderline scandalous. Not heretical exactly, but close enough to make people shift uncomfortably in their seats. It simply wasn’t a real question. Asking it felt Read More …
I didn’t begin by questioning the Bible; I began by defending it. Not defensively or angrily, but with the earnest confidence of someone who really wanted this whole thing to hold together. Faith mattered to me, and I wanted it Read More …
I’ve been surveying the ways in which my approach to the Bible has shifted, and offered a glimpse last time of what that shift looks like in practice – something I hope to spend a significant portion of this series Read More …
So far in this series, I’ve been exploring the different ways I’ve approached the Bible. From an airtight System where every detail must fit perfectly, to a sweeping Story whose power lies in its narrative coherence, and now to a Read More …
In my last two posts, I sat with the earlier ways I once viewed the Bible, tracing the arc I was taught to see: sweeping, unified, and divinely orchestrated. I looked at why those views once carried so much weight Read More …
I’ve always loved stories that hold together. Whether in books, on television, or on a movie screen, there’s something about a narrative that threads every twist and turn into a larger whole, where every scene eventually finds its place and Read More …
When I look back at how I first held the Bible, the image that comes to mind is a System. Like a towering and impenetrable fortress, within its walls lay treasures of timeless truth. Each verse a stone cut with Read More …
It’s strange to look back and realize how much the Bible has changed for me. Not in its content, of course, but in the way I see it. Both the way I’ve carried it and the way it’s carried me. Read More …
Welcome back, friends – it’s been a while! It’s hard to believe that more than five years have passed since I first shared my story and started this blog. An honest space where I could put words to the personal Read More …