In this final post on James Bielo's Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Bible Study, I'm writing about both his final chapter —"Negotiating Self and Others" —and his conclusion. Both are relatively short, and in some ways, they work well together. Negotiating Self and Others In this chapter, Bielo uses as his case study a women's Bible study at the same Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) church as the men's group from an earlier chapter. Specifically, Bielo focuses on how the women in this Bible … [Read more...] about Bielo: Bible Study Shapes Identity and Action