This is a dope question. So ima answer it in a lil thread.

It started during a lil interaction I had in my very first class at the first seminary I attended. 1/8 https://twitter.com/sarahk330/status/1358088120189747200

The professor accused me of lacking conviction and “hedging” and “equivocating” because I wasn’t prepared to fully affirm an interpretation of the creation account that required 3 literal 24 hour days before the creation of the solar system on the fourth day. 2/8

I didn’t outright reject it. I said it wasn’t something I cared to spend a lot of capital confirming, because it had absolutely no impact on my ministry. Whether God created the world in 144 hours or 4.5 billion years, it is still an amazing feat. 3/8

I sat with the importance he ascribed to his particular interpretation... and I wondered what other rigid interpretations I’d unwittingly accepted and what the implications on my theology and ministry might be. 4/8

I literally lost sleep thinking about the fact that many people used the same collection of 66 books to justify so many evils based upon a “plain reading” of the scriptures. 5/8

I recognized that the stakes were far too high in my particular context (ministering in the margins) for me to read scriptures “plainly”.

To be the servant I wanted to be, I’d have to read them *seriously*. 6/8

I decided I would bring every question I had to the God revealed in the person of Jesus through the power and agency of the Holy Spirit, instead of the disciples of slave holders and colonizers. 7/8

When I made that decision, I found my freedom.

My freedom has not always been comfortable.

It has not always been welcomed or affirmed.

But it has always been worth it. 8/8