Here’s a taste:

The Bible, especially in times of great culture change, but always, the Bible is in need of liberation, and so we’re trying to demonstrate how God’s Spirit works in dramatic ways when a community is tasked with not just being passive listeners but co-interpreters and co-creators with whatever authority shapes their fellowship.

You bring a bias to the text. And where those biases become dangerous is when they’re not identified.

One of the ways that we have a liberated reading of the text is to acknowledge our biases and to create diversity of voices so that those biases are balanced out.

Free for All: Rediscovering the Bible in Community by Tim Conder with Daniel Rhodes is available for pre-order and is due out August 1.

Also from Tim: The Church in Transition: The Journey of Existing Churches into Emerging Culture

Check out the Emmaus Way Podcast

As you’ve come to expect, we also have a little fun with some of our Homebrewed Christianity Deacons, who left messages on our call-in line. Thanks to Theresa Seeber, who was inspired to share a clip from The Pick of Destiny (caution: f-bombs), my college pal Ryan Busby, and some more folks we have to save for next time. If you want to join in the fun, you can call us at 678-590-BREW.

Next week, we keep the train rolling with Tim Conder of Durham, North Carolina’s Emmaus Way.

Books and Essays by Ronald L. Farmer include:

Beyond the Impasse (Studies in American Biblical Hermeneutics)

Revelation (Chalice Commentaries for Today)

Jesus, Then and Now (contributor)

Creative Transformation, Summer 2008 (also includes articles from Alecia and Tripp Fuller!)

We also have a call from a deacon who tells us about starting an emergent cohort in a galaxy far, far away. We encourage all HBC deacons near and far to call in and leave us a message at 678-590-BREW.

We weren’t able to fit everything in the episode, but Tripp and I also have a little wager going on the 3-game series between the SF Giants and the LA Dodgers. If Tripp’s team wins best of 3, he gets my doppelbock homebrew. If my team wins, I get his Rocky Patels.