Read the Bible like a Mystic

There is a better way to read the Bible: with the eyes of a mystic and the heart of contemplation.   Can the Bible be saved? More and more Christians are troubled by how difficult passages in the Bible can be used to promote sexism, homophobia, hostility to other faiths, and other problems--but a sterile, "academic" reading of the sacred text seems spiritually unfulfilling. Carl McColman, author of The New Big Book of Christian Mysticism , reminds us that there is an ancient ""third way"" o