Dan McClellan loves the Bible. He doesn’t always love what it says. But he works hard not to try to mold it into something that he wants it to be — to meet it, he says, on its own terms. Doing anything else would be a step down a path toward allowing his decisions to be guided by dogma — an experience that his family knows all too well.This is part two of a two-part discussion with Biblical scholar Dan McClellan.

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