W. Clark Gilpin

2 months ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |W. Clark Gilpin |Katherine Willis Pershey |Brian Bantum

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page. Tells a story in breath, rhythm, songWhen I sing a song—even one that’s strange, that is only scraps of a rhythm and a few lyrics—the song makes me breathe with it. I don’t read as much as I listen with it and soften my body to it.

2 months ago | christiancentury.org | Mac Loftin |W. Clark Gilpin |Katherine Willis Pershey |Kathryn Reklis

What’s the Bible for? We asked dozens of writers to respond to this question in seven words or less, as well as to expand on their response in a few sentences. To see all of the responses together as they are posted, bookmark this page. Language to thread the past and presentI once measured the length of a month by the book of Proverbs and the entire Psalter. I could conjure an entire imaginative world through the snatch of a phrase from a story or parable.