Relevant: Year of the Bible

I have a love/hate relationship with Relevant magazine, but they frequently bring out an 800 words that I love. This is one. Click here if you want to read it. The story was also covered in more depth in the Christian Century, and you can access the author’s website here and read an excerpt here. I think it is a good idea to try to take the Bible literally, but one comical vignette of him doing so involves him bringing pebbles with him so he can stone people in the Subway tunnel. He decides that there is therapy in stoning them, but that doing it with pebbles is strange. It is an interesting read.