What Does the Biblical Book of Revelation Mean?
But based on the two predominant views, the Revelation to John has never made sense to many—often most—Bible readers, much less to non-Christians.
Are There More than 66 Books in the Bible?
"My proposal is to own the larger reality of Bibles and scripture in which the poetry, stories, letters, and wisdom take their largest and most flexible expressions."
How Many Baby Jesuses are There?
"The names of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph are almost the only things that are the same in the respective infancy narratives."
Contradictions in the Bible Explained
"The Bible does not offer us rules that determine reality, rather it offers some combination of a wild stream and an improvising jazz band which make life bigger."
Living Church Practices, Not Static Creeds
"Practice is somewhat flexible [and] allows those who practice to make adjustments and grow."
Look Beyond the Biblical Canon
"I hope that this blogpost signals to you the open-ended ways life comes toward us in the same way an open-ended Canon could help us be more alive. "
How Do Jesus and Sophia Reveal God’s Gender?
"One of the most intense controversies emerged when some of us pointed out that in the biblical books of Matthew and Luke, Jesus himself talked about Sophia in intimate and positive ways."
The Gospel of Peter: Resurrection Reinvented
"A number of scholars suggest that the Gospel of Peter’s story may have been one of the earliest if not the earliest. It is time to take this possibility seriously."
Don’t the Gospels All Tell the Same Story?
"The Gospel of John is more like a like a tender poem about God. No, that’s not quite right. It’s a tender poem in God. Like being in an ocean of God."
Seven Stunning Gifts from the Gospel of Mary
"If I’m right that it is a really good, short book from 1800 years ago, then you may want to just mull over what some parts of it mean to you."