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  <title><![CDATA[The Blue Parakeet: Rethinking How You Read the Bible]]></title>
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  <default_description>The Blue Parakeet is author Scot McKnight&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s deeply reasoned, compelling statement of how to read the Bible in a new evangelical generation. In re-examining the Bible, McKnight provides an exciting &#226;&#8364;&#339;Third Way&#226;&#8364;* that appeals to the millions in today&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s church who long to be authentic Christians, but don&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t consider themselves theologically conservative or liberal.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">2008</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Scot McKnight]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Blue Parakeets are those texts in the Bible that don't &quot;fit&quot; within the categories and presuppositions we bring to the Bible. McKnight claims that we all have filters we use to &quot;pick and choose&quot; which parts of the Bible we will choose to listen to, and which ones we will mostly c...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47935929">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Scot McKnight is my homeboy.  I am really thankful that the emerging/missional/whatever-name-we'll-have-next-week movement has him as a friendly yet challenging theological voice.  True to form, this book is full of both encouragements for the church to move forward, as well as cautions to the place...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45697502">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[“How, then, are we to live the Bible today?” With this question McKnight asks his readers to re-think how they understand and apply the Bible.  In the ever-turning waters of theology, philosophy, and popular trends, the Bible as story (a single unified narrative expressed through the “wiki-sto...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42874451">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Mar 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[  This is an excellent book because it pushes readers of the bible to examine why we read the good book in the way that we do.  Specifically, why do we treat different passages of the bible in different way, or more pragmatically, why do we obey different parts of the bible in different ways?  Scot ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44024036">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a very helpful book on how to read the Bible.  Directed to a wide audience, rather than just to pastors and theologians, this book could be read by any Christian interested in understanding how the Bible should be read.  McKnight argues that we must view the Bible as a whole story.  When it ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78325035">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Dec 26 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent, excellent book.  The author articulates what I have longed believed -- Christians need to be more honest about their beliefs and admit those things that are traditions versus those things that are biblical.  Or as the author says, we &quot;adopt and adapt&quot; (a nice way of saying we pi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32679642">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 02 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book!  If you have to read or study the Bible, if you own one, I highly recommend it.  A Blue Parakeet is &quot;those passages that are oddities in the Bible that we prefer to cage and silence rather than permit into our sacred mental gardens&quot; (pg 208).  McKnight's book is basically a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49119988">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="36232915">
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  <read_at>Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A tremendously well-written book on Biblical interpretation - probably the best I've read. Even better - it's accessible to non-theologians.<br/><br/>Note: McKnight's honesty &amp; willingness to follow the truth where it leads will make liberals &amp; conservatives uncomfortable - that's a good thing!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[From front flap: &quot;In 'The Blue Parakeet,' McKnight again touches the hearts and minds of today's Christians, this time challenging them to rethink how to read the Bible, not just to puzzle it together into some systematic theology but to see it as a Story that We're summoned to enter and to car...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51171687">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't necessarily agree with a lot, or even most of what McKnight writes.  He does implore us to read the Bible as God's story, though, which we often forget as we seek to systemize theology, read through tradition instead of with tradition, and elevate certain writer's of Biblical books to the st...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/71237394">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am about half way though this book.  I have been reading in little chunks because I need to think about it as I am going.  Scot is putting into word many things that I have thought about scripture and reading scripture.  He is just explaining it much better and more thoroughly than I could.  <br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49750045">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I do like how McKnight tries to find a middle-path between conservative and liberal positions on the bible, but I hate his writing. Because its so &quot;conversational&quot; it looses both exactness and art. ]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Another interesting book--presents a different, slightly uncoventional way of understanding the Bible.  I enjoyed reading it, and found myself agreeing with a lot of the ideas.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first half is an interesting challenge to how you read your Bible.  The second half is a wonderful defense of women being in pastoral roles in the local church.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[really great book, convicting,easy read too, brings up a lot of questions that don't really get answered though. Great for conversation/dialogue (hopefully with another person and not just yourself...)He has some great insights on how we read our Bibles, and ways to change for the better. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The reality is that everyone &quot;picks and chooses&quot; as they read the Bible. This book does a great job of outlining how to do so reverently.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent resource for challenging you to be more intentional when reading the Bible.  It helps you understand what you're supposed to be doing when you read, what you're supposed to bring to and take from your reading. <br/><br/>Also an excellent discussion about women in leadership in the church...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52141972">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An amazing book that challenges us to read our Bibles biblically and realize some of our inevitable faults in reading it. The book also gives the best argument I've read on supporting women in ministry. Easy to read and probably one of my new discipleship tools.<br/><br/>PS Practically no Christia...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43769357">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book helped me think through one question that I've had for a long time - Why do we say that the whole Bible is true and then only actually follow parts of it?  How do we decide what we are supposed to do now?  The last section is about women in ministry.  The book covers a difficult topic but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50323954">more...</a>]]></body>
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