Loft Conversations: Are Ancient Sacred Texts Still Useful? And Some Thoughts on MLK

The Loft LA - Progressive Christianity in Podcast Form · Jan 18, 2023 · 31m

This week's conversation is the first of a series of conversations on Sacred Texts. So many of us progressive Christians struggle with the Bible. We question its usefulness given that so many people have used it to justify evil. To be sure, we are not alone. Several religious traditions are going through this same struggle. We see the common thread through these traditions is a failure of practitioners to learn the Art of Reading Sacred Texts. We spend the first half of our conversations discussing how and why people of faith have come to this decisive point with our texts.

Then, we finish…