Fighting with the Bible initiation

initiation

Enrichment Lesson 10: The Story of the Prophet Elijah

they are confronted with related conflicts

Baumgarten provides instructions for a calendar made of paper or junk mail

the curriculum helps children resist ideas that treat others as outsiders

Fighting with the Bible initiationIn times of conflict, the Bible is often used as a club to beat those whose opinions differ from one's own. We recoil from such usage, yet the Bible actually represents many diverse and conflicting points of view. It is like a library, full of books that speak to all sides of every question. Like Christians today, the communities and individuals who wrote the biblical texts often strongly disagree with each other. Ruth and Ezra, Isaiah and Ezekiel,