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by Miranda Threlfall-Holmes – A book review

Miranda is clearly an academic of some note but this is readable. I read it in one session. Now that is me – and this is why…

It was laid out like a map. It kept on stretching the corner. You wanted to see what was next.

She dangled the carrot of experimental before me and I wanted to get to that chapter (near the end)

The carrot dangling made me plough on through the book. I can’t skip to the end, the good bit, or the bit that I thought was most interesting. Miranda made the whole thing interesting. She spoke of things that I knew and had experienced.

I am Methodist so lived experience is equal in the Methodist quadrilateral with tradition and reason. Scripture always takes first place. This is different to the Anglican triangle of scripture, reason and tradition.

She spoke of things I was not aware of and of things I am too aware of. For example how scripture has been used to cosh people over the head.
Her simple introduction – Why read the Bible? was quite poetic in its rhetoric and I appreciated it.
Her questions are at human level rather than academic.
Many have asked at some point in their lives.

Why not just follow Jesus and try and be a good person?
Read the book – it’s a good one!