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 … [Read more...] about Bielo: Bible Study Shapes Identity and Action