Changing Direction and Experimenting

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Date: 30 December 2010 16:54:18

Happy New Year, this blog is going to be changing direction over the next year.

I am going to be engaging in an experiment of reading the bible in total over the next year. I'll be using the Methodist version of the NIV designed for this purpose. It's partly intended to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the bible being available in English and partly to search my faith.

I am going to try and read it in a way which allows me to ask questions which I normally wouldn't and to wrestle with tough bits which I know have been used to oppress women and gay people in the past and which I have a tendency to ignore - knowing what interpretations I like to take. I am also hopefully going to be seeing new and exciting stuff. To do this I want to actually read the book by just picking it up and focusing on what the bible itself says, rather than focusing on the commentaries and interpretations of others.

The year is intended to make me face my faith in a new way and journey in a way which may see my faith in pieces at the end or may see it reinforced and strengthened. I invite you to take this journey with me.