Russell Pregeant: 2 books

The Bible can be hazardous to one’s health if it is read with faulty expectations. Writing with insight, compassion, and wit, Russell Pregeant shows that reading the Bible “without interpretation” is impossible; the right question is which assumptions are most appropriate to the Bible and our reasons for taking it up.

For the Healing of the Nation offers a serious look at the social and political climate in the United States from a biblical perspective, emphasizing race and "otherness," economics and the environment, and institutional violence (war and capital punishment). An autobiographical thread traces...