You open your Bible with good intentions, then five minutes later you’re staring at a genealogy that reads like a phone book, wondering how Hezekiah connects to anything you’ve ever heard in church.

Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve taken a closer look at a familiar phrase, “The Bible says…”, and how much more complex it can be than it first appears.

You’ve seen it happen. The same Bible verse used to argue completely opposite things. One person quotes a line to make a ...

If ever there was a richer set of readings to ponder or exegete than the set from today, I have yet to see it. The third Sunday in Ordinary Time is set aside by the church as Word of God Sunday. The ...

How should we approach seemingly inconsistent messages in sacred texts? Religious types insist that contradictions in sacred scriptures are not cardinal flaws. They blame it on artistic classification ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. Editor's Note: The following illustration from the book Fill These Hearts shows the need to put the Bible or theological ...

About Paul’s writings, Peter said that they, “contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other scriptures, to their destruction” (2 Pet ...

The unintended consequences of concordances offers a warning to Christians today. I open my Bible to 1 Peter 2:8: “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” By “open,” I ...

(The Conversation) — A historian of the Bible in American life explains how Bible verses are being picked out of context to make a case for the anti-vaxxer movement. (The Conversation) — A devout ...

The world’s most famous Bible fragments are heading back into the spotlight, with a fresh rotation of the Dead Sea Scrolls ...