Tag: Bible interpretation

Helpful advice for both conservative and progressive Christians

(May 11, 2025)

How to properly understand the Old Testament. A review of one of the most helpful books I’ve ever read.

Reading the Bible sensibly

(April 7, 2025)

The Bible isn’t always an easy book to read and understand. Here are 7 suggestions to help read it sensibly.

Who decided what’s in the Bible?

(March 10, 2025)

How did the Bible come to us? Who wrote it? Whe decided what’s in it and what’s not?

Reading the Bible in the 21st century

(February 19, 2025)

Intro to a series of posts to offer insights (I hope!) and answers on how to understand and read the Bible, and make sense of it.

Christians and transgender

(January 31, 2025)

Christians seem to have a special interest in, and criticism of, transgender and non-binary people. Is this justified? Is it helpful?

Books: understand the Old Testament

(January 8, 2025)

I’ve been a Christian believer for more than 60 years, and through the first 40-50 years, the Old Testament really bothered me. I didn’t know how to understand it. I couldn’t really believe the stories of Adam & Eve and Noah’s Ark were literally factual. I was troubled by a loving God apparently ordering cruel […]

No place for spiritual misfits?

(October 31, 2024)

Are you a spiritual misfit? Have you started to feel like church is a foreign country where you don’t speak the language? Christian teachings that you once accepted now seem beyond belief? Can’t relate any more to some of the things other Christians do? Do you feel alone? Then you’ll be glad to hear you’re […]