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“We can easily forget that Scripture is a foreign land and that reading the Bible is a crosscultural experience.”
― Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
― Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes: Removing Cultural Blinders to Better Understand the Bible
“Protest is not unbiblical; it is a manifestation of our analysis of the human condition in light of God’s own word and vision for the future.”
― Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
― Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
“The problem isn’t that the Scriptures that Satan quoted were untrue, but when made to do the work that he wanted them to do, they distorted the biblical witness. This is my claim about the slave master exegesis of the antebellum South.”
― Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
― Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
“But we are not the center of the universe, you and I, neither as individuals nor as the representatives of the whole human race. God’s universe must be considered as one great whole composed of interrelated parts, and its majestic purpose is not the gratification of our puny selves.”
― The Source
― The Source
“And we learned, perhaps the hard way, that church isn’t static. It’s not a building, or a denomination, or a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Church is a moment in time when the kingdom of God draws near, when a meal, a story, a song, an apology, and even a failure is made holy by the presence of Jesus among us and within us.”
― Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
― Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church
Paul’s 2025 Year in Books
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