Reading the Bible Again for the First Time
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Once a month now, since this past October, we have been “reading the Bible again for the first time,” and we have so far covered what some call the Old Testament, though others give it a better name and call it the Hebrew Bible. Today, for the first time, we cross over and enter into…
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Here is one of the greatest stories ever told. The voice is ancient and comes to us from around 2700 to 2500 years ago. It is in fact the voice of a collective—a Hebrew religious caste known as the Levites—though tradition likes to imagine that the author is one single person and that person is…
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In an article in the New Yorker, humorist Paul Simms invites us to imagine the God of the Hebrew Bible as an enthusiastic user of social media, like so many of us are today. God is a blogger. God has a blog. So imagine: God has just created the universe. And then God reaches for…
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Reading the Bible again for the first time. Isn’t that an interesting idea? It suggests some kind of initial acquaintance, followed by a time of separation, and then a return—a seeing-again with new eyes. It’s certainly my story. When I was 15 and teaching Vacation Bible School, I would sing The B-I-B-L-E Yes, that’s the…
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