Spiritual Truth in the Age of Fake News
Ebook
Overview
”Fake News! That’s Fake News!” In a few short years, the phrase “Fake News" has earned a place in dictionaries, in national discourse, and in our daily lives. But Fake News is not new. Fake News began when people first interpreted the Bible to advance their own agenda. Commonly-held beliefs about what the Bible says regarding women, LGBTQ folks, slavery, immigrants, and Jews trumpets Fake News that is destroying people’s lives. What is the best way to counter Fake News? With the truth. To do so, Episcopal priest Elizabeth Geitz turns to the #1 bestselling book year after year--the Bible. Sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and heterosexism are experiencing an alarming resurgence today. It is time for an accessible book that sets the record straight on what the Bible really says regarding the many “isms" affecting all of us. It is time for the Fake News about the Bible to come to a screeching halt. The 101 eye-opening reflections in Spiritual Truth in the Age of Fake News are a call to action for people of different faiths or no faith at all. This a must-read for anyone exhausted by the daily barrage of Fake News who is seeking the relief of the authentic.
“Elizabeth Geitz pulls no punches as she calls us to move beyond
the many ‘isms’ that plague our culture today, to read the
Scriptures with eyes wide open, and to commit ourselves again to
loving all our neighbors with no exceptions.”
—Michael B. Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church
“In this important book, Elizabeth Geitz speaks truth to power—the
power of biblical tradition. She introduces us to heroines and
spiritual guides who contradict the image of subservience women
have accepted for centuries. Any woman of any faith can find
strength and inspiration—and hope—in the citations she has
assembled to tell our true story.”
—Suzanne Braun Levine, First Editor of Ms. Magazine, author
of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second
Adulthood
“In her penetrating and highly readable critique, Elizabeth Geitz
laments the distortions of a weaponized Scripture—passages
cherry-picked, quoted out of context, falsely interpreted, or
simply omitted in order to promote a spiritually corrupt agenda.
She offers readers a series of reflections as a path to arriving at
the truth.”
—John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and
Evil
Product Details
- Title : Spiritual Truth in the Age of Fake News
- Author: Geitz, Elizabeth
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Publication Date: 2019
- ISBN: 9781725252967