[Faith] Episode 73: Ciarra Jones - Who Gets to Decide What The Bible Means?
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[Faith] Episode 73: Ciarra Jones - Who Gets to Decide What The Bible Means?

B2Upper-intermediateJuly 27, 202650 min

In this week’s episode of Faith for Normal People, Pete and Jared talk with theologian and ethicist Ciarra Jones about who gets to decide what the Bible means and how our identities, experiences, and social locations shape the ways we interpret Scripture. Drawing on her own journey from Pentecostal Christianity to Black, queer, womanist, and liberation theology, Ciarra explores how dominant interpretations of the Bible have been used to justify slavery, white supremacy, sexism, and the marginalization of LGBTQ+ people. She also introduces the practices of biblical refusal and biblical reversal, challenging the idea that some interpretations are ob...

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You're listening to Faith for Normal People, the only other God-ordained podcast on the internet. I'm Pete Enns. And I'm Jared Baez. What if we got 2 Timothy 3.16 wrong?

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For generations, Christians have built an entire view of the Bible on 2 Timothy 3.16. This verse was proof that Scripture is God-breathed and therefore inerrant. But what if that famous translation misses the point? Our July class will help answer that question.

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We've invited biblical scholar John Poirier to teach our July class to look at one word, the word behind God breathed. Sound boring? It's not, I promise.

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