Interpretation
Salt In the Wound or, Evidence That Reading Is a Lost Art
If reading is fundamental, interpretation is impossible without it. When an interpretation is offered apart from reading a text the interpreter is rupturing his or her own ideology.… Continue reading
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What Do You Think About Mark Driscoll’s Apology? – She asked.
There was a day when I cared deeply about site statistics. If a person sets out to write,… Continue reading
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Radical Faithfulness
During Holy Week Barry tweeted,
I’m thinking this Maundy Thursday foot-washing business is a distraction-the point isn’t washing feet-that was a cultural signifier-ours is?
— barry taylor (@BarryT256) March 28, 2013
What is our cultural signifier? What habit or practice would approximate foot washing today that at the same … Continue reading
Read MoreQualify Your Biblical or, Chris Tilling Says “No More” to Unspecified Meaning
In my tribe, biblical nearly always refers to a way of reading and interpreting the Bible as the correct way, the Christian way. Ferreting out potential heterodoxy or slippery slopes that lead to heresy rest on the often indeterminate unbiblical, the un-Christian way. He or she who follows … Continue reading