But too often, when we read scripture in our churches, we focus on other aspects of the story, or we are so familiar with the text that we don’t notice the challenging things it has to say to us.
Scripture from the Margins is a series of Bible studies that encourage people to focus on the voices and perspectives in scripture that we don’t usually hear in our churches.
They can be used for individual reflection, or in house groups and Bible study groups. They make great Lent programmes.
I wanted to thank you for putting together such an excellent course – accessible, opinionated, challenging, affirming and easy to lead and to build on.
So many courses are dull and simplistic – yours opened up new vistas. There was never a sense of being forced into a right answer or finding an easy solution. It was a complex course for complex times and a complex faith.
(Revd Richard Lamey, Rector of St Paul at Wokingham in the Diocese of Oxford)
We have also produced a bookmark for your Bible, with questions to help you find perspectives from the margins whenever you are reading scripture.
Click on the links to the right to download the materials.
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