I’m #Reading God’s Ghostwriters by #CandidaMoss https://bookshop.org/a/13969/9780316564670 (affiliate link) for my diocese’ #EfM #BookClub & found this #Patheos article by #HenryKarlson to be very timely to that: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/henrykarlson/2025/07/multiple-interpretations-the-key-to-richer-text-engagement/

Moss’ book has me reading #Scripture with new eyes & understanding while Karlson’s essay reinforces how important it is to read with an open heart & open mind. Both serve as vivid reminders that the issues I have with Scripture stem, at least in part, to the perceptions I bring to the reading. Perhaps one of the unspoken (unrecognized?) reasons I am feeling a need to take a deeper dive into my #Faith is to better understand myself as well as my religious beliefs. It’s not deconstruction as much as it is a fuller immersion into my faith & an active, conscious releasing of those aspects of religion & religious teaching that no longer serve me. I’m not abandoning the #JesusMovement as much as trying to live into it.

Reads of the day. (May or may not have stolen these from the Slacktiverse over at #Patheos. Opinions are not necessarily my own.)

🧵 to follow:

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/09/05/i-saw-blue-oyster-cult-play-the-penny-pan-festival-in-doveland/

Been a while since I've posted #Slacktivist on here.

Quote(s):
"Jumping off of Washington’s nose on Mount Rushmore would be fatal. [...] But Bloom did not jump off anything when the band played the Mount Rushmore festival [...] because no band has ever played the Mount Rushmore festival...

...because it does not exist." (emphasis mine)

"Yet [...] fans over the years told Bloom they remembered seeing him make that leap."

#BlueOysterCult #ConspiracyTheories #Patheos

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/08/25/the-whole-world-looks-upon-the-sight/

The latest from #FredClark (a.k.a., #Slacktivist) over at #Patheos.

Quote(s):
"A school principal and her husband, an electrical engineer, bought a house in the suburbs. That should be unremarkable and boring. It shouldn’t be a pioneering moment in #BlackHistory or a courageous milestone.

But their purchase of that home was greeted by a mass freakout of white people who vandalized their property and engaged in harassment and mob violence for weeks."

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/08/11/ragged-dick/

(Resist... urge... to laugh... at... title...)

Quote(s):
"Hard work and clean living will lead to riches and success. [...]

The ones who achieved success only managed to do so because they were assisted by older, wealthy, unmarried men who took those boys off the streets and into their homes.

If you think there might be a creepy subtext to that, you’re wrong. It’s not a subtext at all.

Horatio Alger was a pedophile."

#Slacktivist #Patheos #USPol #ClarenceThomas

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/07/31/the-riots-of-udolpho/

Some lunch time reading from #Slacktivist over at #Patheos.

Quote(s):
"This is what happens after you realize that you’ve stooped to barbaric violence of the sort that forces women and children to flee and hide. [...]

Imagine: You’ve just burned down a school. A boarding school [...] at night when all the children and the nuns who teach them are asleep in their beds.[...] What could possibly be worse then burning down a school full of nuns and children?