We're joined again with our friend, Jen Wilkin, wife, mom, Bible teacher, and author of

the fabulous book, Women of the Word, how to study the Bible with both our hearts and

our minds.

The book turned four years old this summer, and it's already sold 200,000 print copies

alone.

An amazing achievement.

We talked about the book last time, but today I want to talk about your blog, Jen, because

you caused quite a stir with a 2016 article titled The Instagram Bible.

You open that piece by writing this quote, beware the Instagram Bible, my daughters, those

filtered frames, festooned with feathered verses adorned in all matter of loops and tails,

bedeckled with blossoms saturated with sunsets, cold and curated just for you.

Wow, so what is the Instagram Bible and what was the warning you were sounding in that

piece?

I've noticed that on certain social media platforms, people have propensity to cherry

pick scriptures more egregiously than elsewhere.

And so if you're a woman on Instagram, a Christian woman on Instagram, your feed is going

to be clogged with these hand-lettered verses that are scrolled and embellished and really

are lovely and suitable for framing, but they're often pulled completely out of context.

I think that they can create the illusion that we are interacting with scripture in a

healthy way, but if you think about it, you're only going to hand-letter certain kinds

of verses out of the Bible, and the Bible is full of many different genres and covers

many different subjects.

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