Contents
TELLING OUR STORIES
Personal Accounts of Engagement with Scripture
Ray Gingerich and Earl Zimmerman

Foreword by Walter Wink 11
Acknowledgments 13

PART ONE: HOW IT ALL CAME TO BE

1 Finding the Storytelling Model • 17
2 Developing the Storytelling Model • 25

PART TWO: TELLING OUR STORIES
3 Scripture is a Snake • 35
Malinda Elizabeth Berry and Liz Landis

4 Confession of the Laborer Who Arrived Late in the Day • 49
Jo-Ann Brant

5 Encountering the One Behind the Bible • 57
Owen E. Burkholder

6 Scripture in Congregational Life • 63
J. Ron Byler

7 A Great Many-Winged Bird • 73
Lin Garber

8 Reading the Bible in Search of Jesus and the Way • 79
Ray Gingerich

9 Joining with the Energy of God • 91
Roy Hange

10 Getting the Steps Right • 98
Nancy R. Heisey

11 Scripture and Other Companions • 105
John Kampen

12 Beyond Criticism: My Life with the Bible • 121
Richard A. Kauffman

13 Scripture as a Mirror • 135
Paul Keim

14 The Journey is My Home • 139
Marilyn Rayle Kern

15 Making Scripture Dance • 146
Phil Kniss

16 Receiving, Researching, and Revisiting Scripture • 152
James Krabill

17 True Stories • 162
Susan Mark Landis

18 From Generation to Generation • 169
Cynthia A. Lapp

19 Uncovering Our Faith Assumptions • 174
G. Crag Maven

20 Munching on a Mattering Text • 181
Keith Graber Miller

21 The Mystery of the Living Word • 189
Lee Snyder

22 Reading the Bible Again for the First Time • 198
Dorothy Jean Weaver

23 From Nonresistance to Engaged Nonviolence • 207
J. Denny Weaver

24 Between Text and Life • 221
Earl Zimmerman

PART THREE: PRESUPPOSITIONS AND THEOLOGICAL GRIDS

25 Presuppositions For Interpreting Scripture • 235
Set 1: Some of My Presuppositions in Biblical Interpretation
Nancy Heisey
Set 2: Presuppositions in Interpreting the Scripture
G. Craig Maven
Set 3: Hermeneutical Presuppositions Concerning the Scriptures
Dorothy Jean Weaver
Set 4: Assumptions in Biblical Interpretation
J. Denny Weaver

26 Theological Grids • 245
Set 1: God’s Plan to Restore Shalom to the Universe
James R. Krabill
Set 2: Believing Readers Reading the Bible
and Calling it Scripture
Malinda Elizabeth Berry
Set 3: The Liberating Good News of Jesus
Earl Zimmerman
Set 4: The God-Movement toward Just-Peace
Ray Gingerich

Conclusion 256

Appendix A: Biblical Authority: A Personal Reflection,
by Walter Brueggemann 259

Appendix B: Conceptual Background to Guidelines for Writing about
Our Journeys with Scripture 270

Index of Names 274
Subject Index 277
The Contributors 284

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