ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the letter column of the Western Cape Afrikaan's newspaper Die Burger, illustrating the prominence of the position of the Bible. It explores the alternative possibility of a safe space enabled through the process of intercultural Bible reading. The chapter proposes that intercultural Bible reading is a creative alternative that allows for a diversity of voices to be heard within the dynamic collective of community. It suggests that this might be a useful strategy to enable an open debate of issues of homosexuality, not only within the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) but possibly also in other churches and Christian communities in South Africa and wider in Africa. Intercultural Bible reading as an approach explores the dynamic that develops when interpreters from various positions/social locations engage with biblical text. This approach examines the dynamic that develops when readers from a diversity of contexts engage with each other's interpretation of the text.
