Skye Jethani’s simple guidelines for engaging the Bible and avoiding unhelpful controversy. We have a common temptation to get “behind the text” or discover what “really happened.” While archeology ...

Eight years ago, before she was the academic dean at Catholic Theological Union, Dominican Sr. Barbara Reid had an idea. She wanted to create a work of feminist biblical interpretation that would ...

The editors of this volume are Franklin T. Harkins (PhD, Notre Dame; Theology Dept. Fordham University), author of Reading and the Work of Restoration: History and Scripture in the Theology of Hugh of ...

Thanks to the pathbreaking work of Beryl Smalley, more than a half century ago, today we recognize the central place of the so-called School of Saint Victor in the history of biblical exegesis. By the ...

An update to the Bible translation used by many mainline Protestant churches has stirred accusations of “gaywashing” over how an ancient Greek word is translated. At issue: Does arsenokoitai ...

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LAS VEGAS — Fifteen years before Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy led an armed standoff against federal agents near his arid desert ranch, the practicing Mormon combed through Latter-day Saints scripture ...

Interesting how the author of this piece appears to use the Jewish story of the Book of Esther to suggest that Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack was nothing but an act of “revenge ...

Las Vegas • Fifteen years before Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy led an armed standoff against federal agents near his arid desert ranch, the devout Mormon combed through Latter-day Saints scripture and ...