Marilyn Chandler McEntyre is troubled by bumper stickers that read: 'The Bible said it. I believe it. That settles it.' Instead, she would like to see bumper stickers that say: 'If you can't handle paradox, get out of the pulpit.' Or 'If you can't handle metaphor, get out of the ministry.' She says that the Bible is 'arguably the most mysterious, strange, challenging, complex book in the world,' and should be approached with a sense of mystery, not wooden literalism. Reading it should be considered an invitation: "'Come,' it says over and over. Come to me and I will give you rest. Enter it. Sit and eat. Dwell. Consider. Trust. Look again. The ground of all theology lies in that invitation. First and last, it is a proposal, sent in love by the heavenly Bridegroom, that summons us into a relationship more intimate than any we can know this side of heaven."

(The Christian Century quoted from Weavings, January/February)