I’ve recently gotten out of school and finally have more time to get back into the faith. I’ve noticed that I cannot readily find many of the resources I had enjoyed before when I had experienced more questions (since my faith was more heavily being contemplated and thus remembered than now). What resources (movies, websites, apps, even videos) do you use to help you grow your faith?
One thing that I try to do now is not worry so much about what people believe but find a larger range of beliefs. So what u mean is that instead of just looking for things similar to me, white American men who mostly come from Protestant backgrounds I instead try to find podcasts and books, often on apps free to use if you’re in America like Libby and Hoopla Digital, that are different from me. So I’ll find stuff by Catholics, I’ll find stuff by people in denominations I normally ignore , such as Mormons, and by women, people of color in America and outside of it.
For example look at how the segregationist weaponized the Bible and how the abolitionist used it to help give hope to people. Look at how black pastors active in the civil rights used it and how people from hate groups like the KKK used it.
Get a book on how a capitalist uses the Bible and a socialist.
Look up an Asian biblical scholar , a black biblical scholar, someone who affirms the LGBT and look at world from Indigenous people.
It will help you see how proof texting can really shape what you accept and ignore.
Pick a subject like Hell and get books by those supporting eternal conscious torment, those pushing conditional immortality and those who preach universalism.
Look at the different views on original sin, and at those who reject it.
Think of something foundation to you faith.
Take “did Christ come to earth to die for us?”
Look up atonement and substitutionary beliefs and those who refuse it.
With that said my favorite podcasts are “the Bible for normal people” by Pete Enns and Jared Byas and “the Bible project” by Tim Mackie.
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Calvin Miller’s “Singer Trilogy.”
It’s the story of Jesus. It’s poetry and fantasy. But not hard.
They are sone of the very few books I have from my youth.
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I have that too! Parts still come back to me. Thanks.
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Bible Project has a ton of really good resources based on real scholarship. There are podcasts, videos, Bible studies.