I looked forward to my Sundays in the choir loft of the church, looking at the back of Dr. Vaught's bald head and following along in my Bible, as he taught us through the Old and New Testaments.

我总是盼望着星期天唱诗班的活动，在那里，我可以盯着沃特博士那光秃秃的后脑勺看，从头到尾地跟随着他学习《旧约》和《新约》。

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The bishop's solution to this problem which goes back to 19th-century thinkers such as Matthew Arnold is to think of the Bible as poetry rather than dogma: as it cannot give you literal access to the divine, it is only as metaphor that it can satisfy a human longing for the transcendental.

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She made a commitment to serving Jesus Christ and was not about to back away from her call to ministry because a male-dominated organization decided that its interpretation of the Bible calls for a woman not to be in the pulpit.

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Although both believe that the Bible contains the core of all Christian faith and thought, traditionalists tend to talk about the tradition of the Church of England, tracing its routes back to the early church, while evangelicals support their view with specific passages from the Bible.

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