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For centuries, the story of Eve has been used to say something about women: that they are more easily deceived, less trustworthy, or even responsible for humanity’s downfall. But is that really what the story says? In this class, we’ll explore how interpretations of Eve have shaped the way women have been understood and treated —and how reading the story from different perspectives can reveal an Eve we've never been taught to see. Along the way, we’ll discover that the harm caused by this story wasn’t inevitable but came from choices people have made about how to interpret it.

Many of us grew up being told the Bible had an answer for every moral dilemma, every political debate, every life decision. When we discovered it didn't work that way, we were left wondering: Is the Bible even relevant anymore?

In this class, theologian Drew G. I. Hart argues that if we're looking for a rulebook, the answer is clearly no. But if we're willing to read scripture as a living conversation of wisdom and inspiration that bends toward justice, liberation, and shalom, then the Bible becomes extremely relevant. Drawing on his own theological traditions, Drew will walk through how different parts of the Bible are healing as well as harmful, yet collectively can inform some of today's most urgent concerns (race, empire, gender, land, and peacemaking) and how we can interpret, wrestle with, and embody scripture’s wisdom for pursuing more just and mutually liberative communities rather than as a weapon to dominate others.

What if we got 2 Timothy 3:16 wrong?

For generations, Christians have built an entire view of the Bible on 2 Timothy 3:16. This verse was proof that Scripture is “God-breathed” and therefore inerrant. But what if that famous translation has actually been a mistranslation? What if inerrancy, and hundreds of years of Bible-reading, was based on a Church Father’s mistake? We’re not trying to sound all Davinci Code over here — we’ve just got some questions.

So we’ve invited biblical scholar John Poirier, to teach our July class to look at that one word: the word behind “God-Breathed.” John will help us:

• Look at the ancient Greek context for the word behind “God-breathed” 

• Look at the history of how it’s been translated

• What are the implications if we re-translate it differently?