Even still, some Christians continued to read and value apocryphal texts. One of the oldest complete versions of the New Testament, the Codex Sinaiticus, dates to the fourth century and includes two ...
Bible verses once thought to offer clear moral guidance now fuel some of America's most bitter debates over ...
Proof-texting leads to ill-informed preferences that divide Christians. If you have personal standards, live by them—but don’t misapply Scripture to demand others agree. The core problem is misusing ...
Readers of the Bible are thus invited to engage in a double act of moral imagination. First, they must imagine that they themselves, and not merely their ancestors, were redeemed from slavery in Egypt ...
Political candidates on the right and left claim the same faith but come to radically different policy positions. How can that be?
Donald Trump has been called many things by his most devoted supporters — fighter, disruptor, chosen — and in some corners of ...
Ignorance of sacred Scriptures is ignorance of Jesus Christ, Pope Leo XIV said during his weekly general audience. "The ultimate purpose of reading and meditating on the Scriptures," he said Feb. 11, ...
The author of more than 100 titles said, “You need to know God’s Word, and there are basics,” starting with how to mark up the text. The morning that Kay Arthur died, a woman led a Bible study using ...
The Catholic view of authority and Holy Scripture is not about some ubiquitous churchman looking over everyone’s shoulder so that they would interpret each verse exactly as the Church says it ought to ...