The curious thing about the Bible is the way it reads itself. Modern and postmodern folk, having talked themselves out of trusting Scripture so that they can more credulously swallow whatever some ...

Last time in this space, I wrote a little piece on the ways in which the various Protestantisms filter the sometimes ambiguous text of Scripture through various semi-permeable membranes in order to ...

With this incisive, illuminating book, Martin, a professor of religious studies at Yale University, engages the question needling most contemporary skeptics of a Christian background: how can anyone ...

What is the meaning of Jeremiah 11:11 and why you should take care of yourself? It's fairly common knowledge that numbers in sequence are considered to be angelic messages sent from spiritual beings ...

Why multiple translations might even be better than Scripture in its original languages. From countless pulpits every week we hear an implicit message that has wormed its way into our minds: We lack ...

The question of biblical interpretation has returned to the centre of theological discussion today. Hermeneutics is no longer relegated to a backroom. It is one of the most prominent preoccupations of ...

Have you ever taken a lesson lightly? Sure you have, we all have to some degree. When I was in school, I hated English, all those punctuations and diagrams, verbs, subjects. I just couldn’t get my ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Nicholas Kristof THE LOST ART OF SCRIPTURE Rescuing the Sacred Texts By Karen Armstrong In the ...

Earlier this month, Vancouver Sun columnist Douglas Todd wrote an interesting column on how non-Muslims can approach the Qur’an. Since this is my research and teaching area, I thought that Doug’s ...