The Power of Story to Resist Empire

And why the word "scriptures" aren't helpful to anyone other than the Big Box Church.

Let’s talk about the word “scripture”. When religious people talk about “scripture” it often feels cringey – like an ambiguous term meant to instill fear in the hearer. The church I most recently pastored used the word STORY in place of Scripture and here’s why I think that’s a necessary shift in language for settler-descendants.

 Scripture = law, instru…