“In itself this Christian education is partly the product of the retreat of biblical scholarship from the faith community to the academy. In removing themselves to the academy biblical scholars have ceased to engage with the people of the issues of the contemporary faith context. ~ Janet Lees (p. 84). In Reading Other-Wise”
Source: Reading Otherwise: Socially Engaged Biblical Scholars Reading with their Local Communities
“Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and beheld a flying roll.”
“If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.”
“The more the words, the less the meaning.”
Source: Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher
“These were the fundamentalists, the power-hungry grifters who took advantage of the fact that most people don’t know the Bible all that well. They were charlatans, frauds, hypocrites, and villains. And they made for great TV.”
Source: Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds
“That was before I realized just how precious pride is. How dangerous it is to the people in power, and that's why they want to take it away from you. That's why they scare little kids with stories of burning for eternity just for having a backbone.”
Source: The Free People's Village
“Ignite the mind's spark to rise the sun in you.”k”
Source: Le Spéculum aux alouettes
“Life is nonbiblical, truth is nonbinary.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“And I saw that all the toil and all achievement spring from one person's envy of another.”
Source: Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher
“Almost always, the more intelligent, clever, and original you are, the more bored you are by Proverbs. It tells you nothing you didn’t know before. It is a book of platitudes, of old, well-worn truisms. It is, simply, dull. Yes, that is how the most “advanced” minds see Proverbs. And our nation, our civilization, and our world are today threatened with destruction precisely because of the ideas of those “advanced” minds, because we have departed from the old platitudes. If there is anything our civilization needs in order to survive the threat of moral and spiritual and perhaps physical destruction, it is to return to these “safe”, “dull” platitudes. For they are true. They are a road map to life, and we are lost in the woods.”
Source: You Can Understand The Bible: A Practical And Illuminating Guide To Each Book In The Bible