Myths are truths
The perspective of Rabbi Neil Gillman
Rabbi Neil Gillman used the term “myth” to mean an organizing principle into which we fit certain facts and experiences, a narrative structure that communicates a community’s master-narrative.
Topic: Scripture
The Universalist Core of Christianity
Jesus and After: The First Eighty Years, by E. Bruce Brooks – A review
Jesus and After: The First Eighty Years, by E. Bruce Brooks – A review. Is the Christian scripture a moving text which changes with time? The author witnesses to such changes through an episodic philological analysis of Christian scriptures.
Rescuing Romans 13:1-7
How do we answer authoritarian use of these words?
Amid the wide global turmoil stirred by America’s current flexing of authoritarian nationalism, a deeper spiritual turmoil has been brought to light by the current administration’s use of the apostle Paul’s Letter to the Romans.
There is a willful blindness at work in this government and its supporters, a steadfast unwillingness to acknowledge—or care—that the families fleeing to the United States from Central America are refugees seeking asylum from violence in their homelands.
Page 575 and the Quaker Bible
Reading The New Cambridge History of the Bible
The New Cambridge History of the Bible is a four-volume scholarly project on the history of the use and abuse of the Bible. Volume 3 of this project primarily covers the western Christian Church during the period of 1450 to 1750, from the end of the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment.
“The Inner World Has No Seducers, and No Seduced”
Jonathan Ferguson is a freelance journalist, satirist, poet and author. He writes: “I help Brian K. White edit the long-running satire site Glossy News . See my Medium, Twitter and Facebook. If you find my work of interest, you can sponsor me on Patreon…
A New New Testament, edited with commentary by Hal Taussig
A brief review with excerpts
A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts , edited with commentary by Hal Taussig (Polbridge Press, 2014). Reading the The New New Testament is a powerful step in convincement, evidence of the…
The Canaanite woman: Recognizing kinship
“Jesus’ own vision of his ministry was more universal than you say. This is one of our key stories which illustrate the movement within Jesus during his lifetime enabling him to see his mission as one including us. This woman…is indeed for us the foremother of the mission which includes us as Gentiles. Just as she won healing and wholeness for her daughter, so too she won it for us, her daughters and sons today.”
Open Theology: Bible Translation issue (ed. Mark L. Strauss)
Last week we introduced Open Theology , an international Open Access, peer-reviewed academic journal of research articles from established and emerging scholars in the field of religion. The journal has just published its “Bible Translation” topical…
“Emotional Intelligence and Sola Scriptura”
Excerpts from “Experimental Theology”
Richard Beck is Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychology at Abilene Christian University. On his popular blog Experimental Theology Richard will spend enormous amounts of time writing about the theology of Johnny Cash, the demonology of Scooby-Doo or his…
Some thoughts on Job
Forrest Curo posts regularly on QuakerQuaker . In response to Forrest’s comment on our review of The Book of Job: A Biography , reviewer Larry Spears invited him to contribute the following blog post. (Forrest has also published this piece on his…