Ebook: The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

Parakeets make delightful pets. We cage them or clip their wings to keep them where we want them. Scot McKnight contends that many, conservatives and liberals alike, attempt the same thing with the Bible. We all try to tame it. McKnight's The Blue Parakeet calls Christians to stop taming the Bible and to let it speak anew to our heart. McKnight challenges us to rethink how to read the Bible, not just to puzzle it together into some systematic belief but to see it as a Story that we're summoned to enter and to carry forward in our day.;The book and I -- The birds and I -- Inkblots and puzzles -- It's a story with power! -- The plot of the wiki-stories -- From paper to person -- God speaks, we listen -- The boring chapter (on missional listening) -- The year of living Jesus-ly -- Finding the pattern of discernment -- Slaves in the King and His Kingdom redemption story -- Atonement in the King and His Kingdom redemption story -- Justice in the King and His Kingdom redemption story -- The Bible and women -- What did women do in the Old Testament? -- What did women do in the New Testament? -- Silencing the blue parakeet (1) -- Silencing the blue parakeet (2) -- Now what? -- Appendix 1. A discernment quiz -- Appendix 2. Images of Jesus -- Appendix 3. 1 Corinthians 14:34-35 -- Appendix 4. Petronius on the new Roman woman -- Appendix 5. Juvenal on first-century woman -- Appendix 6. Junia is not alone -- Appendix 7. Genesis and science.