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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...

practices for today. There are two kinds of “return and retrieve” readers—some try to retrieve all of it and some admit we can retrieve only what can be salvaged. Consider those who seek to retrieve all of it. If Jesus taught table fellowship, such persons sometimes suggest that we should focus on table fellowship and gather in homes instead of big churches. If Paul said we should speak in tongues, we should speak in tongues. If Jesus said we should wash feet, we should wash feet. If Peter says women
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