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 ...

The occurrence of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), which is observed this year at the end of May and is associated in Jewish tradition with the giving of the Ten Commandments and of ...

Do you wonder how to read the Bible? Let it read you. When it comes to reading our sacred texts, the trend seems to be read-the-Bible-in-a year schemes and app-based tools that provide access to our ...

New strategies for interpreting Scripture turn out to be not so new—and deepen our life in Christ. A wide range of voices claims that a crisis of biblical interpretation is taking place. But contrary ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Several years ago, I started walking three miles each morning with my English lab, no matter the weather. There is something good about closing the gap between oneself and the environment—getting ...

I totally agree with Cal Thomas' column titled "Remaking the church to suit the world" (Press, July 25). I am Lutheran (Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod), but some churches that call themselves ...