I don't have as much time as I once did to hang out at the cafe. I confess I miss it.

Skimming through a number of threads, a sort of theme emerged and I wonder if it might be worth pulling into its own thread.

Most mainline clergy and lay preachers I know understand the Bible as "true but not historical". I think it was Gord who mentioned, in the context of midrasch, that we have to study Scripture in a way that allows us to find the context for our time, where the ancient story intersects with our lives.