Our fall Book Group selection is Amy Jill-Levine’s Short Stories by Jesus: The Enigmatic Parables of a Controversial Rabbi.  Let Taryn know if you are interested!

“As subversive as any parable, this book not only offers readers new ears for hearing stories we thought we knew by heart; it also shakes the faithful where we most need to be shaken, showing us how close we have come to disarming some of Jesus’s most potent teachings.  Every new book from A.J. Levine startles me with its brilliance and pluck, but this one goes next to my Bible.”
–Barbara Brown Taylor, author of Learning to Walk in the Dark

“Levine is here to change how you think about Jesus and the stories he told.  With her characteristic wit and learned, iconoclastic imagination, Levine presses readers of the parables–especially Christian readers–to question their assumptions, curb their biases, and read Jesus’s words afresh with ancient eyes.”
–Peter Enns, author of The Bible Tells Me So