{"id":92889,"date":"2015-06-13T00:07:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=92889"},"modified":"2015-06-13T12:29:26","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T19:29:26","slug":"a-reader-has-nice-things-to-say-about-making-senses-out-of-scripture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2015\/06\/a-reader-has-nice-things-to-say-about-making-senses-out-of-scripture.html","title":{"rendered":"A reader has nice things to say about <i>Making Senses Out of Scripture<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I just started reading <em>Making Senses Out of Scripture<\/em>\u00a0for the second time, and intend to buy several copies of the new version for Evangelical and Catholic friends and family members (and myself, too). When I was a new Catholic (convert from a Fundamental, King-James-Only Baptist background), it helped me begin to see Scripture through the eyes of the Church. It\u2019s been 11 years (received at the Easter Vigil in 2004), and I\u2019m still learning see the Bible that way. I look forward to the new edition. Thank you for publishing it again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks! \u00a0Authors love to hear this kind of thing!<\/p>\n<p>For those who missed it, I\u2019ve revised and expanded <em>Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did<\/em>.  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