A devout evangelical Christian friend of mine recently texted to explain why he was not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. “Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy ...

You open your Bible with good intentions, then five minutes later you’re staring at a genealogy that reads like a phone book, wondering how Hezekiah connects to anything you’ve ever heard in church.

"Do you really take the Bible literally?" The person who asks can't believe that I am a reasonable human being in the 21st century. I respond by asking, "What do you mean by 'literal'?" So often we ...

A devout evangelical Christian friend of mine recently texted to explain why he was not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. “Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy ...

The unintended consequences of concordances offers a warning to Christians today. I open my Bible to 1 Peter 2:8: “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” By “open,” I ...

Citation of out-of-context verses and subsequent interpretations of the Bible regarding homosexuality are not only ahistorical and disrespectful to such a complex text but tangibly harmful to those ...

The mysterious masked man had not fallen to his death, once again defying Vizzini’s expectations. This was the fourth time he had proclaimed the man in black’s actions were "inconceivable." Inigo’s ...

Teaching the Bible in public school raises ticklish problems. Because our public schools must not be used for preaching religion, they must teach the Bible purely as literature. And they must teach it ...

CLEVELAND -- In the Christian Bible, there are a total of 31,102 verses. Only 11 of those verses have as their subject matter sexual activity between persons of the same gender. Eleven! None of those ...

Students in Christian colleges have too often assigned a kind of second-class academic citizenship to Bible courses, feeling that these courses will not tax them intellectually and that they have ...