Balancing Faith in the Word with a Scholarly Understanding of the Bible

Sometimes, people grow up in conservative churches where the Bible is often read in a very literal or fundamentalist way. Such persons might go on to study at a college or university where they are exposed to a more scholarly, historical-critical way of reading the Bible. This usually feels more informed and honest than the fundamentalist approach to the Bible — but often it seems that something can be lost when we transition from reading the Bible literally to reading it in a more scholarly way...