Apr 12, 2011

David Ker writes: You may have hopes that you can open your Bible and get a quick dose of spiritual wisdom but the Bible wasn’t written to you. You may want to claim a verse like “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth” but that verse isn’t a verse about parenting and its not about your children. The Bible isn’t a...

Jan 5, 2011

More theologically conservative classmates, who were quietly ridiculed for taking the Bible “literally,” understood literature more thoroughly as a symbolic artform that communicated on multiple levels. The ones who thought that the Bible was a “nice story” that shouldn’t be taken literally all tended to view literature in a way that was almost slavishly literal.

Jun 7, 2010

This post is written mainly for the benefit of atheists who think that the "God Hates Shrimps" retort does anything to undermine or expose the belief, held by evangelical Christians, that the Bible teaches that homosexual practice is a sin...

Sep 16, 2008

Suppose you're traveling to work and you see a stop sign. What do you do? That depends on how you exegete the stop sign...