Fighting with the Bible Each essay will close with

Each essay will close with questions for reflection and a brief prayer

initiation

In this prequel to Entertaining Angels: Hospitality Programs for the Caring Church

and find little satisfaction or peacefulness in either

Fighting with the Bible Each essay will close withIn 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,