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What happens when the Bible becomes a stage prop for national identity instead of a text that interrogates it?
This episode explores “America Reads the Bible,” a high-profile event where political leaders, actors, and influencers recited Scripture from the nation’s capital, and, drawing on Bonhoeffer’s warning about reading the Bible for ourselves instead of against ourselves, Savannah and Lee examine how the same text is used to fuel both nationalism and its critique, alongside debates like Tennessee’s Ten Commandments bill.
Things we mentioned in this episode:
The Wright Brothers by David McCullough
Flight of Passage: A Memoir by Rinker Buck
The Congruent Life by C.E. Jarnagin
Eboo Patel on No Small Endeavor
AJ Levine on No Small Endeavor Live
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