The history of American Bible interpretation can give us some answers. Along with workers worried about their jobs and conspiratorial types worried about a robot takeover, many scholars and pastors ...
Someone once compared the way people read the Bible with three kinds of home plate umpires. One umpire calls them the way he sees them. Another sees them the way he calls them. And a third kind calls ...
The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...
"Do you really take the Bible literally?" The person who asks can't believe that I am a reasonable human being in the 21st century. I respond by asking, "What do you mean by 'literal'?" So often we ...
"Theistic Evolution" is the belief that God created all things but used evolution to do it. Many Christians and Christian institutions that I respect hold to it, and until recently, I didn't believe ...
One of the most-studied Bible verses of the year is from 2 Timothy in the New Testament, according to an analysis of millions ...
Young people turning to scripture in record numbers. Gen Z Bible readership jumps from 30 percent to 49 percent in one year.
The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...