The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible

In a weeks time I will be blogging about Scot Mcknight's new book, The Blue Parakeet. The book is in the mail and it should be an exciting read. If you are not familiar with Scot Mcknight his blog is a must read: http://www.jesuscreed.org/. I have gained much wisdom and my faith has been enriched by his writings. Below is a snippet from the back cover:

“Why Can’t I Just Be a Christian?”Parakeets make delightful pets but they can’t be tamed. The Bible, Scot McKnight contends, also can’t be tamed though many have tried. Both conservatives and liberals have tamed the Bible and McKnight calls us to untame the Bible and let it be what it is.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.He calls his bold new approach to the Bible the “Third Way,” a path that walks confidently—and joyfully—between theological extremes.The Third Way is rooted in the Bible as Story, in the Bible as God’s Word to which we listen, in the Bible as revealing a life that we can apply anew 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.The Blue Parakeet is an engaging, warm narrative that is both deeply reasoned and spiritually sound … a book that will appeal to millions of disenfranchised Christians who will be drawn to it because of its refreshing—and liberating—new approach to reading the Bible.