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November 2018

November 27, 2018

#MeToo? Theologians draft the ‘Women’s Bible’

From AFP — and note the surprising reference to Martha and deacons: Tired of seeing...

April 2018

April 05, 2018

The purge continues: China pulls the Bible from online stores

Disturbing news: The Bible appears to have been removed from online marketplaces in China, as...

October 2015

October 30, 2015

Is this the hardest teaching of Jesus?

It just might be. Given some of what I'm reading around the interwebs these days,...

October 30, 2015

Is this the hardest teaching of Jesus?

It just might be. Given some of what I’m reading around the interwebs these days,...

September 2015

September 16, 2015

Trump names his favorite Bible verse, but there’s just one little problem…

From The Washington Post: Nearly three weeks after Donald Trump was first asked to name his favorite...

September 16, 2015

Trump names his favorite Bible verse, but there’s just one little problem…

From The Washington Post: Nearly three weeks after Donald Trump was first asked to name his favorite...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

Bible that replaced God with Kanye West pulled from website

Was it a hoax? Or just a tasteless publicity stunt? The Christian Post reports: A...

April 07, 2015

Bible that replaced God with Kanye West pulled from website

Was it a hoax? Or just a tasteless publicity stunt? The Christian Post reports: A...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

Coming soon: Museum of the Bible in D.C.

Some intriguing details from NPR: In Washington, D.C., construction is underway on the Museum of...

January 2015

January 28, 2015

American Bible Society leaving New York

American Bible Society headquarters in New York via Wikipedia A big deal, from The Philadelphia...

January 14, 2015

Mississippi moves to make the Bible the state book

A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. (Via Wikipedia

December 2014

December 30, 2014

Bible app reports the most popular verses of 2014

From Huffington Post: The Bible App has been downloaded more than 162 million times, according to the...

December 12, 2014

“I Am the Very Model of a Biblical Philologist”

Well, I'm not. But I know some of you out there will love this: an...

November 2014

November 29, 2014

And a little child shall lead them: new movie depicts God as a boy

From The New York Times: Ridley Scott’s 3-D “Exodus: Gods and Kings” has computer-generated plagues,...

July 2014

July 26, 2014

A new Catholic Bible? Check out “The Message”

Those of us who grew up with the "Good News for Modern Man" in the...

May 2014

May 12, 2014

Really?

What to give the priest or deacon who has everything.

April 2014

April 18, 2014

Calvary

After reading my Good Friday homily, describing a visit to Calvary, a deacon reader...

April 04, 2014

Scientists say the ark would float—even with 35,000 species of animals

Don't try this at home. Although it seems scientists think it would work: Noah's Ark...

April 01, 2014

Is this the Holy Grail?

Just in time for Easter, from The New York Daily News: Two historians claim the...

March 2014

March 02, 2014

Will “Son of God” be this weekend’s #1 movie at the box office?

Maybe: Universal’s Non-Stop, starring Liam Neeson, surged ahead to take the lead in the weekend box...

November 2013

November 08, 2013

Bombing North Korea with bibles

From FoxNews.com: On a rainy afternoon last Spring, American pastor Eric Foley and his wife...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

Good luck trying to preach this idea at Midnight Mass

A biblical scholar makes the compelling argument that Jesus was not born in a stable: ...

September 2013

September 23, 2013

On words and The Word—UPDATED

Mary DeTurris Poust has a followup to yesterday's cri de coeur on lackluster liturgy: Over...

September 18, 2013

Archeologists reportedly discover town Jesus visited after feeding the multitudes

Details: Dalmanutha, a Biblical town described in the Gospel of Mark as the place where Jesus...

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Should you use an iPad in church?

Priests have been known to use them for celebrating Mass and for preaching. But the...

August 05, 2013

Want to listen to the Bible? There’s an app for that.

CNS throws a spotlight on an intriguing (and free) audio app: The gentle lilt of...

August 05, 2013

Want to listen to the Bible? There’s an app for that.

CNS throws a spotlight on an intriguing (and free) audio app: The gentle lilt of...

July 2013

July 02, 2013

“The Bible” Sequel Coming to NBC

From the New York Times: In an indication of the shifting center of power in...

June 2013

June 10, 2013

Mark Burnett Plans Follow-up to “The Bible”

What's unclear is if this will be a sequel (though Acts and the journeys of...

June 07, 2013

Yee haw: Behold, the Texas Bible

I kid you not. A gentleman by the name of John Dyer has developed an...