Jennifer Garcia Bashaw

Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, New Testament professor and pedagogy expert, joins to explore how we always interpret Scripture. She uses cooking as a metaphor for reading, teases why nobody simply reads the Bible, and digs into how tradition and claims of inerrancy shape interpretation. Short, lively reflections on context, rules, and what it means to bring questions to the text.

Jennifer Garcia Bashaw, New Testament professor and ordained Baptist minister, and Aaron Higashi, public Bible scholar and teacher, discuss their new book on interpreting scripture. They use a food-and-chef metaphor, unpack genre and literary questions, explore contextual and liberation lenses, and consider queer and marginalized readings. Conversations focus on how interpreters’ identities shape readings and on resisting harmful uses of the Bible.