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 ...

Learning how to study the Bible on Your Own can feel overwhelming at first, but it doesn’t have to be. Many beginners open their Bible and don’t know where to start, what to read, or how to make sense ...

What have Christians done to Doug Clark that he should twist New Testament teaching even more than Vicky Allen's politicians (Christianity and human values, Letters, March 12)? Eph.5.21 says submit to ...

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 ...

In this rich and wide-ranging book, Karen Armstrong argues that we have forgotten how to read Scripture as it was composed to be read. Too many of us approach it as we approach the modern world in ...

For the Story Lover: The Great Adventure Catholic Bible simplifies the complexities of Scripture reading by guiding Catholics in truly understanding the narrative story of salvation history. Using ...

One of the most-studied Bible verses of the year is from 2 Timothy in the New Testament, according to an analysis of millions ...

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 ...

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 ...

At a moment when scripture was far more fluid, different Jewish communities may have kept different scrolls, though all would have had the Torah, the Psalms, and Isaiah. Jesus usually quotes from this ...