Intentions

I am an English teacher. And, like most English teachers, I love to read. Poetry. Prose. Comics.

Pizza with Jesus

In doing more thinking about how we choose to evolve or entrench in our theological interpretations, I was speaking to a friend of mine who has been doing some work with women who are moving out of sex trafficking.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalDenise CraneMay 5, 2021reading the Bible, Theme XXX, Denise CraneComment

An Untimely Death

I’ve always struggled with the Noah and the Ark story. It doesn’t fit tidily into the loving and redeeming trajectory of God’s story with Man.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalDenise CraneApril 28, 2021reading the Bible, Theme XXX, Denise CraneComment

Reading the Bible

Like most of the people I talk with, I am genuinely bewildered at how divided people of faith are currently when we all claim to believe in God.

Wisdom for the Way, DevotionalDenise CraneApril 20, 2021reading the Bible, Theme XXX, Denise CraneComment

The B-I-B-L-E

The B-I-B-L-E
The Wesleyan Quadrilateral, Week 2
by Andrea Lingle

The B-I-B-L-E, yes, that’s the book for me.

Actually, I have a rather volatile relationship with the B-I-B-L-E. It is a book that I have read and re-read, but do not understand. It is surprising, confusing, infuriating, and precious. There are stories that have left me terrified, inspired, and everything in between.

What Kind of God?

What Kind of God?: Reading the Bible with a Missional Church
by Bret Wells

What kind of God is God? If, as the Apostle Paul claims in Colossians 1:15, Jesus is the exact image of the unseen God, then what is that God like? And how might the revelation of God in Jesus—God’s will, God’s nature, God’s action, God’s plan revealed fully in Jesus—change how followers of Jesus read the Bible?