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Interview: Malcolm Gladwell on his return to faith while writing “David and Goliath”

Interview: Malcolm Gladwell on his return to faith while writing “David and Goliath”

How writing a Book on David and Goliath brought America’s most beloved non-fiction writer back into the fold.

“I was so incredibly struck in writing these stories by the incredible power faith had in people’s lives, it has made a profound impact on me in my belief.” – Malcolm Gladwell

The Danger of Calling Behavior ‘Biblical’, by Rachel Held Evans

The Danger of Calling Behavior ‘Biblical’, by Rachel Held Evans

On “The Daily Show” recently, Jon Stewart grilled Mike Huckabee about a TV ad in which Huckabee urged voters to support “biblical values” at the voting box.
When Huckabee said that he supported the “biblical model of marriage,” Stewart shot back that “the biblical model of marriage is polygamy.”
And there’s a big problem, Stewart went on, with reducing “biblical values” to one or two social issues such as abortion and gay marriage, while ignoring issues such as poverty and immigration reform.
It may come as some surprise that as an evangelical Christian, I cheered Stewart on from my living room couch.
As someone who loves the Bible and believes it to be the inspired word of God, I hate seeing it reduced to an adjective like Huckabee did. I hate seeing my sacred text flattened out, edited down and used as a prop to support a select few political positions and platforms.