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The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible is unavailable, but you can change that!

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 has emerged at the perfect time to cool the flames of a world on fire with contention and controversy. It calls Christians to a way to read...

were dead set against movies, drinking wine, and sex before marriage. In our version of reality, these three were all related—if you drank with your girlfriend, you’d lose your senses and go to a movie and end up having sex. I’m not only making fun of my past, I’m emphasizing how distorted things got—a good, solid Christian was one who didn’t do specific things that were against the rules. It also had to do with what we did—which was go to church weekly, read the Bible daily, and witness as often
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