Orienting, anchoring, challenging, comforting, questioning, interpreting, loving
What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page.
Orienting, anchoring, challenging, comforting, questioning, interpreting, loving
Some words are like seashells. Hold them to your ear and hear whispers of infinity. Biblical texts have something of this seashell quality. Not all; for example, not instructions to slaves and wives. But many texts resound with the awesome, fascinating mystery of God. They offer life a road map. By a kind of grace they produce in those who listen to them what they are expressing: passion for justice, radical hope, love of neighbor and of all creation—even strangers.
