The battle over the Bible is increasingly polarized between the absolutism of inerrantists who claim to speak for all Christians and the scorn of secularists who find easy targets for ridicule. With an engaging combination of honesty, goodwill, and wit, Thom Stark offers a vital third way. He explodes the “hermeneutics of convenience” of self-styled [...]

Thom Stark writes with intense passion and an almost brutal honesty. In doing so, he does thoughtful Christians a great service. In our chaotic, post-Christendom age, the teachings of the Bible are more relevant than ever—should we fight our way free from old patterns that make a doctrine about the Bible more important than the Bible’s [...]

If the truth should trump all, then this book should persuade those it argues against. It is informed, heart-felt, and utterly reasonable. Christians can ignore the facts that Stark brings into the light of day only if they want to be wrong.
Dale C. Allison, Jr.
Author of Jesus of Nazareth: Millenarian Prophet
and Constructing Jesus: Memory, Imagination, [...]

Conservative Christians often affirm that the Bible is historically accurate, internally consistent and morally edifying. Anyone who has had a good introductory course on the Bible at college level knows that it is not necessarily any of the above. Even people who profess to hold that the Bible is inerrant acknowledge in practice that this [...]

Well, I’ve been offline for the summer as I’ve been working on my book, The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong, forthcoming from Wipf & Stock Publishers. Early this morning, Frank Schaeffer, author of Crazy for God and Patience with God, read my book (in one sitting!) and I [...]