Reading the Bible should not be dull. Have you ever noticed that the reading of the Scripture lesson often reaches a low point in listener attention? This happens in Sunday school classes, women’s and ...
I listened attentively while cooking dinner at my parents’ house to my mother reading Bible stories to my 3-year-old son. They were at the part of the story of the sons of Jacob, when Joseph’s ...
Staff and congregants of Beach Road Church in Southport began the new year with a public reading of the entire Bible in the ...
Effective biblical engagement must be about more than one’s personal experience with Scripture. The disconnect crystalized 12 years ago when I (Dru) started teaching an introductory Old Testament ...
(RNS) — Our two usual modes of reading Scripture, rationalism and emotionalism, ignore an essential way that we make connections and maintain satisfying relationships with God. (RNS) — Nearly half (48 ...
Last Sunday, the readings introduced us to Bartimaeus, the blind man, who decided to follow Jesus even though he had the option to stay behind in Jericho. This Sunday, the readings introduce some key ...
We didn’t fully understand the experiment we were beginning, but this was the question driving our search, the point of curiosity that started our not-quite-scientific process. As women who were once ...
When editing a piece about Blessed Franz Jägerstätter last Holy Week, I was struck by this line, an excerpt from a letter the martyr wrote his wife before his martyrdom: “Even if yet more difficult ...
A new research paper from the Baker Institute of Public Policy at Rice University calls the state-created Bluebonnet materials a win for Christian nationalists and accuses the Texas Education Agency ...