Have you ever been hurt in life, and you need Scriptures on forgiveness in the Bible to heal you of the hurt and restore you? Forgiveness is one of the hardest commands God gives us, yet it’s also one ...

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church. If the Bible is the most-published book in ...

Michael Peppard begins his new book, How Catholics Encounter the Bible, with something other than a passage from sacred Scripture. He offers instead an image of Michelangelo’s “Pietà,” the ...

On June 1, 2020, Donald Trump processed less than a quarter of a mile from the White House to St. John’s Episcopal Church. Though St. John’s had been damaged by protesters the night before, he did not ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

Randy Rosenthal has a master’s in theological studies from Harvard University, where he teaches writing. We usually think of scripture as a written text, part of a closed canon, as sacrosanct, as ...

A HISTORY OF THE BIBLE: The Story of the World's Most Influential Book, by John Barton. Viking, 613 pp., $35. The Bible sits on the shelf like any other book. Open it up, though, and it immediately ...

In his review of Karen Armstrong’s “The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts” (Dec. 1), Nicholas Kristof includes a quote from Armstrong: “Because its creation myths do not concur with ...