Bible Stories for Skeptics: Why You Don't Have to Believe in the Supernatural to Be a Christian--or a Jew
With a bit of a  twinkle in his eye, Richard Trudeau—a skeptic, retired Unitarian Universalist minister, Harvard Divinity School grad and (though he doesn't use the word) humanist—removes the supernaturalism from some of the common stories in  the Judeo-Christian Bible for the edification of non-scholars. He links them to  history as known to archeologists and serious historians and tries to salvage some things of value in the collection of diverse materials in the book. He shows how and why the contents of the book evolved and how its assorted unknown authors borrowed and modified stuff, none of which is readily apparent to the casual reader or ordinary churchgoer. Among his conclusions, that Jesus was not really a Christian and that Christianity, as Bernard Shaw put it, is not the religion “of” Jesus but a religion “about’ Jesus. An interesting read. --Edd Doerr, book reviewer for The Unitarian Universalist Humanist AssociationThis is [a] book that lifts up the meaning that can be found in the biblical stories despite one's theological orientation. It focuses on major stories and themes of the Hebrew Bible and the gospels portion of the Christian scriptures. It is particularly useful in groups where people have had little contact with the Bible and contemporary scholarship, and with groups that include those who have negative reactions toward the Bible. --Rev. Ron Robinson, Executive Director, Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship