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January 2014

January 11, 2014

What Barton and Copeland get wrong about war and faith

In this video Kenneth Copeland and David Barton argue that soldiers returning from war should...

January 10, 2014

George Orwell and bending the Bible for our own purposes

Florence King once called George Orwell “Every conservative’s favorite liberal and every liberal’s favorite conservative.”...

January 07, 2014

Read the Bible if you’re going to have an opinion about it

Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a list of books you should read. His selection concerns...

December 2013

December 04, 2013

Why you need the church to read your Bible

It's easy to bash the church, and there are many that do. Of course most...

July 2013

July 23, 2013

Cherry picking the Bible? Yes and no

There's been a little dustup recently about people supposedly "cherry picking" the Bible. Holy writ,...

June 2013

June 24, 2013

We are losing our consciousness of the Bible

David Brooks flubbed the Bible, and his June 13 column for the New York Times...

June 15, 2013

One forgotten Bible study tool every Christian needs

Everyone's got a Bible, or twelve. We've got access to commentaries, dictionaries, and other lexical...

June 09, 2013

You’re reading the wrong Book of Esther

The Book of Esther occupies a controversial place in the Bible. John Calvin did not...

June 06, 2013

The secret behind the Bible’s most highlighted verse

The current issue of The American Prospect features a short piece on ebooks and social...

June 04, 2013

Why are there dirty stories in the Bible?

Anyone who's read the Bible to children or come at it with some naivety knows...

June 02, 2013

The Bible’s answer to corrupt government and false religion

The book of Daniel is a lot of things, but one is a sustained critique...

February 2013

February 23, 2013

How not to read the Bible

"All scripture is . . . profitable for teaching," according to Paul's second letter to...

January 2013

January 10, 2013

The Bible, clear as mud

Peering through the most recent edition of the peerless Books and Culture, I came across...

December 2012

December 13, 2012

Is the virgin birth really predicted in the Old Testament?

Did the Old Testament prophet Isaiah actually predict that Mary would conceive Christ while still...

December 01, 2012

Let the Bible elevate your mind

There's a conversation running right now on the relative value of certain Bible translations. Depending...

August 2011

August 01, 2011

To see and know, first obey

In C.S. Lewis's Narnia novel, Prince Caspian, the four Pevensie children, Peter, Susan, Edmund, and...

May 2010

May 05, 2010

Impact of the King James Bible

Novelist John Updike once called the King James Bible “our language’s lone masterpiece produced by...

August 2007

August 05, 2007

Jesus, we hardly knew thee?

Since the publication of Dan Brown's spiritual thriller The Da Vinci Code popular buzz about...