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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
In an increasingly secularised society few people have a good working knowledge of the Bible. Yet a great deal of our culture is built on stories or ideas that come from the Bible. Literature, art, music, language and even the fabric of our society - such as our justice system - are built on Christian concepts and biblical references. The Writing on the Wall provides a fascinating introduction to the Bible's best-known, and most influential, stories. Each chapter gives some background to the text of the Bible, and shows how the stories have become enmeshed in Western culture. Adam and Eve, the ten plagues of Egypt, The Prodigal Son and Mary Magdalene all feature - along with how the Bible has influenced everyone from Shakespeare to Monty Python, and Caravaggio to Banksy. 
Giving It Up explores the Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something, and suggesting instead that what we need to give up is our existing ideas about God. With a daily readings for each day of Lent, from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, it follows the heroes of the Bible who had to give up their own too-small ideas about God.
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Hi Maggie,
I agree that people who look at the Bible with fresh eyes can give new insights. You may not have come across this blog of the Bible – or at least the Old Testament – by David Plotz, a deputy editor of Slate, an online magazine in the US. He started with Genesis a years ago and is up to Ruth. It’s definitely non-theological. Complete archive at
http://www.slate.com/?id=3944&cp=2141046&nav=navom
Neale
Thanks Maggie. I have found a number of Christian couples over the years weighed down by the burden of not being ‘certain’ that they were the ones God intended for each other. A theology of a number of possible futures many of which can work if you are who God wants you to be rather than do what God wants you to do works for me. And for them.
Oh, and the Slate Magazine stuff is brilliant. I second that.
I agree Neale – I’ve been reading David Plotz since he started “Blogging the Bible”. Wondeful witty and thought provoking stuff. This link is quicker I think:
http://www.slate.com/id/2150150/