"We tell ourselves stories in order to live." - Joan Didion
Jesus & Peter vs. the Gates of Hell - Rev. Chris Currie | 8.27.23
With Christ as our true teacher, we are called to a lifelong journey of joint inquiry in which we seek to embody Scripture wisely and faithfully in Christian community. After all, even as we apprentice ourselves to Christ and to saintly exemplars before and around us, we are simultaneously called to live in such a way that others will want to apprentice themselves to us. - L. Gregory Jones, "Embodying Scripture in the Community of Faith"
Jesus & the Samaritan Woman - Dr. Cyndi Parker | 8.20.23
When we ignore or minimize the importance of the original context, our default position will be to fill in the textual backdrop with our own social context. In other words, we will assume that things in the biblical context are just like they are in our own. So there is no way to attain a reading of a biblical text without a context. - Jeannine K. Brown, Scripture as Communication