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Reflections
7 Little-Known Biblical Literary Genres That Will Change Your Reading
Discover 7 often overlooked biblical literary genres — satire, hyperbole, extended parable, chiasmus, inclusio, antithetical parallelism and irony — that will transform your reading.
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Avoiding the 5 fatal errors in interpreting biblical literary genres
Discover how to read the Bible correctly: 5 mistakes to avoid according to genre (irony, hyperbole, satire, narrative, poetry) for a deep understanding.
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The exact protocol for integrating technology into your contemplation time
Practical protocol for digital lectio divina: integrate tech into contemplation, purify your digital space and transform your habits in 7 days.
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The Silent Revolution of Women in Biblical Interpretation: How Female Voices Are Transforming Our Understanding of Scripture
The silent revolution of women in biblical exegesis: how female voices are renewing the reading of Scripture and transforming the life of communities.
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Confession of a Skeptic: How Spiritual Podcasts Saved My Prayer Life
Confession of a skeptic: how spiritual podcasts revived my prayer life — intimate testimony, practical tips and advice for contemplative listening.
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Biblical intercultural dialogue: your passport to a richer faith
Biblical intercultural dialogue: enrich your faith by discovering how African, Asian, and Latin American perspectives reveal new dimensions of Scripture.
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Connecting the Bible and Modernity: The 7 Essential Steps to Revolutionize Your Approach to Scripture
Discover how to connect the Bible and modernity in 7 practical steps: identify your contemporary concerns, create thematic bridges, develop emotional resonance, practice reverse contextual reading, use your modern questions as hermeneutical keys, cultivate wonder and share in community — for a living, relevant and transformative reading of Scripture.
New Testament
“Integrated into the building which has the Apostles as its foundation” (Eph 2, 19-22)
From exile to home: Discover how Ephesians 2:19-22 transforms our identity—becoming fellow citizens, family of God, and living stones of the temple through the Spirit.
New Testament
“He chose twelve of them, and named them Apostles” (Luke 6:12-19)
Choosing Twelve to Transform the World: How Jesus' Night of Prayer Illuminates Discernment, Diverse Team Building, and Practical Mission
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The Secret of Great Preachers to Make the Bible Accessible to Everyone
How to Make the Bible Understandable for Everyone: Practical Methods for Preachers—Identifying the Core Message, Concrete Language, Historical Contexts, and Daily Study Rituals.
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Stop Reading the Bible Like Your Grandparents (Here's Why)
Stop reading the Bible like your grandparents: discover how collective, participatory, and intercultural Bible reading renews faith and action.
New Testament
“You have received a Spirit who has made you sons, and in him we cry out, ‘Abba!’ that is, ‘Father!’” (Rom 8:12-17)
From slavery to sonship: how the Holy Spirit makes us cry “Abba” and transforms our identity, from fear to filial freedom and glorious hope.
New Testament
“Should not this daughter of Abraham have been loosed from this bond on the Sabbath day?” (Luke 13:10-17)
Jesus heals the bent woman on the Sabbath: choosing mercy over legalism, calling to see and straighten the invisible.
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We read the Bible completely backwards
Discover why our modern reading of the Bible often misses the point—and how lectio divina, a contemplative reading of the Church Fathers, can transform your relationship with the Scriptures by emphasizing slowness, meditation, prayer, and contemplation.
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Why Preachers Avoid Talking About the Canonical Approach: Bible Study's Best-Kept Secret
Discover why so many preachers avoid the canonical approach—a method that illuminates the coherence of the entire Bible—and how to gradually integrate it to transform individual and community understanding of Scripture.
Old Testament
“The prayer of the poor pierces the clouds” (Sir 35:15b-17, 20-22a)
Ben Sira 35: The prayer of the humble pierces the clouds - how God preferentially listens to the poor and calls us to perseverance and solidarity.
New Testament
“The tax collector went down to his house; he had become righteous rather than the Pharisee” (Luke 18:9-14).
The parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector (Luke 18:9-14) reveals that humility opens the way to justification: reading, meditating on and living the salvation received through mercy.
News
Faith and Constitution: the dialogue that has united Christians for a century
Between Cairo and Alexandria, in the Wadi El Natrun desert, an event of rare importance is taking place this week. From the 24th to...
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5 Steps to Mastering the Canonical Approach Without a Theology Degree
Learn to read the Bible as a unified story: grasp the narrative unity, identify themes between the Old and New Testaments, use cross-references, recognize literary genres, and apply the method to everyday life to gain spiritual autonomy and deepen your reading without academic study.
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How I Learned to Read the Bible with the Eyes of the World
How I Learned to Read the Bible with Global Eyes: A Personal Account of Transforming Bible Reading Through Popular, Women's, and Non-Western Perspectives—Hermeneutical Humility, Intercultural Dialogue, and Ways to Begin This Exploration.


