The Book of Job Offers an Alternative to Censorship | Sojourners

The Book of Job Offers an Alternative to Censorship

Image of the Bible opened to the book of Job. Photo credit: Christiane Lois Dating via Reuters. 

Through reclaiming missing stories and telling our own stories in terms that undermine dominant narratives, we affirm our humanity and agency, our ability to resist and interpret our lives as meaningful. We must theologically interrogate the way we tell stories and the temptation to censor marginalized people’s perspectives and histories in favor of a dominant narrative. This is because stories cut to the heart of how humans, created in the image of God, make meaning out of what happens to us.

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