Although contemporary debates focus mainly on what we should and should not be reading, it’s just as important to ask why and how we read. Eugene Peterson said that putting the Bible in someone’s ...
We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...
Good literature can steady and orient unmoored men in their early years. But for renewal, they need to read Scripture.
Every January, gyms get crowded with new members, salad sales spike, and Bible-in-a-year reading plans get downloaded by the millions. And by this time in February… only the kale is still hanging on.
Bunni said the opening ceremony on April 18 at the Museum of the Bible: “Then we start from 9:00 am to 9:00 pm for seven full days as they read through the whole Bible….It will be epic.” The version ...
Julia Watts Belser has written a book about joy, a political manifesto, a cry from the heart, and a spiritual companion. A queer and feminist rabbi, spiritual teacher, scholar of disability in both ...
‘One hundred years from my day,” Voltaire is supposed to have remarked, “there will not be a Bible on earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker.” Things haven’t worked ...
Sales of the Good Book have doubled in five years. Is it an aesthetic statement; a smokescreen co-opted by the far right ...
Don't read the Bible like a textbook. It's a means of grace. Read it slowly, savor it, meditate and let its message penetrate your soul.