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Navigating Christianity from laity as an amateur Bible nerd with no relevant qualifications 🇬🇧 Married Dad to 3 ☕️ Drinker of hot beverages 💡https://www.laychristian.com
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Reading the prophetic and apocalyptic literature in the Bible as if they predicted “tomorrow’s news today” is a gross failure of genre recognition, which has let to fanciful ideas such as an alliance of English-speaking nations against Russia, an idea looking quite fanciful. /1

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#forbiblenerds, sub to the feed here if you’re interested in Bible adjacent publications with an academic focus. bsky.app/profile/layc...

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A book #forbiblenerds to enjoy.

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Interesting comparison of post engagement across social media platforms: tl;dr? X trending down, BlueSky trending up, not *quite* passed each other. Also X is a troll-fest.

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Realised that my literary diet has been formed of quite dry academic papers of late. This book by @johnhendrix.bsky.social has been a poignant read and visual delight over the Christmas break, and encouraged me to suggest better (i.e., more esoteric) names for the niche communities I start/join.

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Welcome along @biblefeed.bsky.social, good to see you in the sky 😎 I’ve added you to my starter pack (go.bsky.app/T6BCfgN), daresay there will be a few names you recognise in here.

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You know the algorithm is working when the memes it shows you are a) funny and b) sum up the headache of Biblical authority and interpretation for Lay Christian communities.

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Woken up by my wife this Sunday morning to discuss the ethics of cancelling house church because our village has a power cut (it’s a Sunday School prize-giving and we’re hosting) Today’s ecclesiastical quandary was brought to you by Storm Darragh 🥱

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An unusual topic #forbiblenerds: the contemporary application of apocalypse. Use code 15PRE for a discount on this revised edition.

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Well, I for one welcome our new psychoanalysing AI overlords. blueskyroast.com/roast/laychr...

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So here’s the thing…even IF there wasn’t a parable *explicitly* undermining this narrow idea of neighbor, Jesus also said “love your enemies.” There’s simply no escaping the fact that Jesus calls us to radically expand our concepts of love and hospitality.

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Picked up a few good follows from this list.

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The Late Great Planet Earth was a hugely influential work, and not one I’m a fan of. While I was deconstructing from a similar eschatological perspective I wrote a little on what I’d learned about the nature of the prophetic voice: livingfaith.blog/2017/10/11/p...

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Adding to the #forbiblenerds feed.

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Sharing on the #forbiblenerds feed.

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Some time ago I moved from a fundamentalist “global flood” understanding of Noah’s Ark to one which appreciates it as ancient literature with a historical core. This article from @ncse.bsky.social was formative for my understanding of problems taking the narrative literally: ncse.ngo/impossible-v...

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"Investigate everything you believe: if it is the truth, it cannot be injured thereby; -if error, the sooner it is corrected the better" - J Foreman, 1859. Words I fell in love with some years ago, which carried me through a long deconstruction and reconstruction loop, and are still my North Star.

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@joelduff.bsky.social I’ve added you to my Lay Christianity Starter Pack here: go.bsky.app/T6BCfgN h/t: @kengilmore.bsky.social for the recommend.

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#forbiblenerds

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What was John’s apocalyptic literature calling the people of God to in their recognition of the pattern of the anti-Christ? open.substack.com/pub/waitingf...

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I was blessed to be brought up in a lay community which didn’t follow ECT. As an outsider it’s sad to see the harm done to the broader Jesus community in terms of fear, ridicule, and somehow making Jesus a thing that people have to recover from.

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