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Growing Up Fundie, Ep. 136: Dr. Jennifer Bird on Applying Critical Thinking Skills to Reading the Bible


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*** This livestream originally aired on Monday, Jan 22nd 2024 as part of Skeptic University Week ***

Watch the visual version here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAle8O47hvA

Dr. Jennifer Bird joins us to discuss the most important aspects involved in unpacking what the Bible says, vs. what the Bible actually says.

In her book "Permission Granted, Take the Bible into Your Own Hands," she encourages people of faith to explore the texts on their own, freed from long-held myths and misconceptions; experience the Bible anew; and appreciate this holy book for what it is, not what we think it should be.

Dr. Bird has taught in New Jersey, Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Oregon and Virginia. Her varied background within:

the United Methodist Church, education in a Presbyterian affiliated institution, time spent in several ministerial contexts, six years of graduate work in biblical studies, and more than 20 years of teaching in classrooms of all kinds inform her approach to having quite honest, and sometimes difficult, conversations about what is actually to be found in the scriptures of the Christian Bible.

Find out more on her website:
https://www.jennifergracebird.com/bio


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