The occurrence of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), which is observed this year at the end of May and is associated in Jewish tradition with the giving of the Ten Commandments and of ...

Throughout history, Christians have interpreted the Bible not only as a guide to faith and moral conduct but also as an authoritative source on the natural world. While many of these interpretations ...

Interpreting the word of God can be more difficult when the words of the Bible get in our way. Put another way: God’s word is so much more than words. I began to realize that back in the mid-’80s ...

As the American and Israeli war with Iran unfolds, some American Christians are speaking of the conflict in biblical terms, mapping end-time prophecies on to current events in the Middle East. In a ...

If ever there was a richer set of readings to ponder or exegete than the set from today, I have yet to see it. The third Sunday in Ordinary Time is set aside by the church as Word of God Sunday. The ...

The Fathers of the Church recognize that the written Scriptures require interpretation. The written texts occasionally are self- evident in their meaning and can be read at face value, but often they ...

Because I had recently become a Christian, I enrolled in a New Testament studies course during my first year as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia. Our guiding textbook was Bart Ehrman’s ...

As we mark the 50th anniversary of “Dei Verbum,” the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, promulgated by Pope Paul VI on Nov. 18, 1965, we note that one effect has been increased study of and ...

When British Columbia’s Trinity Western University (TWU) received permission to launch a law school in 2016, the spotlight returned to the awkward clash of rights, both of which are guaranteed by the ...