FOCUS on Difference with George Wieland

How does the Bible engage the minds and hearts of people in different cultural and social contexts?George Wieland says: “Have you noticed that different groups of people not only have different interpretations of parts of the Bible but actually see different things in it and feel differently about what they read? As our communities and churches become increasingly diverse it becomes even more important to understand how people different to ourselves hear and respond to the Bible that we share. We now have a Carey NZQA course built around an Intercultural Bible Reading experiment that we conduct as a group. It explores what different groups of readers or hearers make of the same Bible passages, and what can be learned about the Bible, its readers, and its effects in a range of contexts, cultures and situations. In this webinar I'll describe the experiment, talk about some of the learning from it, and suggest ways in which we can learn to listen to others and to God at work in them through their encounter with the Bible.”