Considering how often the Bible is characterized as a great work of literature, it is rarely read like one. Few would suggest a piecemeal approach to Crime and Punishment, jumping from chapter to ...

Early in her brand-new nonfiction book Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson points out that when Adam and Eve fell, God did not curse them. Yes, God cursed the ground, but he did not curse his human ...

There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...

Kass, the chairman of the President's Council on Bioethics, offers yet another reading of the Bible's first book, contributing little that is new to the academic study of Genesis. For the past 20 ...

Effective biblical engagement must be about more than one’s personal experience with Scripture. The disconnect crystalized 12 years ago when I (Dru) started teaching an introductory Old Testament ...

One of the most-studied Bible verses of the year is from 2 Timothy in the New Testament, according to an analysis of millions ...

A request made by the Council Bluffs, lowa., chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to have the Bible used in the public schools of that city “for literary and not religious study,” ...