{"id":7072,"date":"2018-09-07T20:37:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T00:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7072"},"modified":"2018-09-07T20:37:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T00:37:46","slug":"relational-sacred-text","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7072","title":{"rendered":"Relational Sacred Text"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Evans-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Evans-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7077\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Evans-5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Evans-5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Evans-5-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Midrash, with its imaginative engagement of the Bible&#8217;s stories, reminds us that biblical interpretation need not be reduced to a zero-sum game, but rather inspires endless insights and challenges, the way a good story does each time it is told and retold.  Our relational God has given us a relational sacred text, one that, should we surrender to it, reminds us that being people of faith isn&#8217;t as much about being right as it is about being part of a community in restored and restorative relationship with God.  This is how Paul engaged Scripture, after all, and Jesus &#8212; both of whom were Jews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rachel Held Evans, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/inspired.html\">Inspired<\/a><\/em>, p. 25<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Sunrise, South Riding, Virginia, September 7, 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midrash, with its imaginative engagement of the Bible&#8217;s stories, reminds us that biblical interpretation need not be reduced to a zero-sum game, but rather inspires endless insights and challenges, the way a good story does each time it is told and retold. Our relational God has given us a relational sacred text, one that, should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,13,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-god","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}