Tag: interpretation
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June 25 Gathering: Josh Scott visits New Wineskins!
Bible Stories for Grown-Ups author Josh Scott will join us LIVE during our June 25 gathering to answer your questions and dig even deeper into the interpretive lenses that inform the book we’ve been studying together for the past couple of months.
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June 18 Gathering: BYOB(v)
This week at New Wineskins we’re inviting you to bring a particular Bible story that puzzles, bothers, or downright perplexes you, and we’ll see how viewing it through a specifically contextual lens helps us understand it
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Sept. 19 Gathering: Guest speaker Josh Scott on reading the parables
This week at New Wineskins: Guest Speaker Josh Scott on reading the parables
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Nov. 10 Gathering: Interpreting scripture
How we interpret scripture has been a major point of contention in the church ever since the Protestant Reformation. But long before that, the priests and teachers of the law in Jesus’ time had deep divisions over how their sacred texts were to be elucidated.
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May 21 Gathering: The Bible Tells Me So?
Everyone has one. A favorite verse from scripture. Whether it’s something to help us remember a loved one, an inspiration of some kind, or a rule of life, we carry our favorite Bible verses close to the heart. Of course, plucking a single verse out of the library of stories, letters, poems, histories, genealogies, and…