If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When the late Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the Bible is and how it is meant to be read. What she discovered changed her — and it will change you too.
Drawing on the best in recent scholarship and using her well-honed literary expertise, Evans examined some of our favourite Bible stories and possible interpretations, retelling them through memoir, original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay. Undaunted by the Bible’s most difficult passages, Evans wrestled through the process of doubting, imagining, and debating scriptures mysteries. The Bible, she discovered, is not a static work but is a living, breathing, captivating, and confounding book that is able to equip us to join God’s loving and redemptive work in the world.
Books are available through Jane Wyse at the Synod Office.
The Bishop of Niagara’s Lent Book 2020
Inspired, by Rachel Held Evans
If the Bible isn’t a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When the late Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the Bible is and how it is meant to be read. What she discovered changed her — and it will change you too.
Drawing on the best in recent scholarship and using her well-honed literary expertise, Evans examined some of our favourite Bible stories and possible interpretations, retelling them through memoir, original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay. Undaunted by the Bible’s most difficult passages, Evans wrestled through the process of doubting, imagining, and debating scriptures mysteries. The Bible, she discovered, is not a static work but is a living, breathing, captivating, and confounding book that is able to equip us to join God’s loving and redemptive work in the world.
Books are available through Jane Wyse at the Synod Office.
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