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\"Bruggemann<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople of faith can read the Bible so that almost any perspective on a current issue will find some support in the Bible. That rich and multivoiced offering in the Bible is what makes appeals to it so tempting \u2013 and yet so tricky and hazardous, because much of our reading of the Bible turns out to be an echo of what we thought anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n

-Walter Brueggemann in Chosen? Reading the Bible Amid the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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