If you want to keep people subjugated, the last thing you place in their hands is a Bible. There's nothing more radical, nothing more revolutionary, nothing more subversive against injustice and oppression than the Bible.
History is filled with people who used the Bible to oppress other people. Being "biblical" is not the same as being Christ-like.
As Paul said, “We see through a glass, darkly” (1 Cor. 13:12 KJV). If we remember that, we might be able to avoid turning our fallible interpretations into infallible declarations of God’s truth. And yet we will continue to seek God’s truth, in the Bible and beyond....
Reflecting...has led me to think that hope and disappointment are part of the same faith perspective. Without hope rooted in a vision of possibility, there would not be the experience of disappointment. As the saying goes, “Expect little, and you will be much less...
White Christianity suffers from a bad case of Disney Princess Theology. As each individual reads Scripture they see themselves as the princess in every story. They are Esther, never Xerxes or Haman. They are Peter, never Judas. They are the woman anointing Jesus,...
There's something unholy, unrighteous that happens when you combine this concept of whiteness and white supremacy with Christianity... In the Bible it says any addition to the Gospels negates the Gospels--it's no longer the Gospel. When you add this gospel of...
We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.
Sometimes the people who are most endangered by their own misbegotten rational capacities are Christians who have studied a whole lot of Bible and theology and think of themselves as merely applying the truths they have learned.
Socrates famously declared that ‘the unexamined life is not worth living.’ It is one of the most quoted classical sayings outside the Bible, but it is followed less than it is quoted. And if Socrates is correct, it would mean that many people, even highly educated...
God writes the gospel not in the Bible alone, but on trees and flowers and clouds and stars.