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The Blue Parakeet
The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible | Scot McKnight
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"Why Can’t I Just Be a Christian?” 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 the Bible that leads beyond old debates and denominational battles. It calls Christians to stop taming the Bible and to let it speak anew for a new generation. In his books The Jesus Creed and Embracing Grace, Scot McKnight established himself as one of America’s finest Christian thinkers, an author to be reckoned with. In The Blue Parakeet, McKnight again touches the hearts and minds of today’s Christians, this time challenging them to rethink how to read the Bible, not just to puzzle it together into some systematic theology but to see it as a Story that we’re summoned to enter and to carry forward in our day. In his own inimitable style, McKnight sets traditional and liberal Christianity on its ear, leaving readers equipped, encouraged, and emboldened to be the people of faith they long to be.
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HeatherBookNerd
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Panpan

This was not very well put together. I feel like the editor failed to corral the author‘s wandering and overly repetitive thoughts. The metaphors were clunky and didn‘t really hold up particularly well under scrutiny. I grew weary of the blue parakeets and all their singing and silencing.

I actually agree with most of McKnight‘s assertions, so no problem there. I just didn‘t feel he supported or communicated them very well.

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HeatherBookNerd
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Day 1 of the RiotGrams Challenge:
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@bookriot #riotgrams #currentread

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Allietaylor16
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Not book related but I just had to share this pic of my parakeet, Charlie, hiding behind his mirror as my boyfriend and I watch Stranger Things!

MatchlessMarie That tagged book really is fantastic though. 😜 7y
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MatchlessMarie
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#maybookflowers
This was one of the most helpful books to me at the beginning of my #exvangelical journey. I would recommend to anyone questioning cookie cutter evangelicalism and why they believe what they believe. This one is loaded with #truths

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