«My goal with this book,» he writes, «is to assure people of faith that they do not need to feel anxious, disloyal, unfaithful, dirty, scared, or outcast for engaging these
questions of the Bible, interrogating it, not liking some of it, exploring what it really says, and discerning like
adult readers what we can learn from it in our own journey of faith... We respect the Bible
most when we let it be what it is and learn from it rather
than combing out the tangles to make it presentable.»