The use of art as a bridge to Scripture and faith was one of the more fascinating subjects discussed at the October Synod of Bishops on the Bible. And one of the most interesting talks on that subject ...

Pastor and artist Joseph Novak talks text and symbol. For millennia, biblical literature has shaped imagination and culture. "The Minimum Bible," a project from pastor and artist Joseph Novak ...

Randy Rosenthal has a master’s in theological studies from Harvard University, where he teaches writing. We usually think of scripture as a written text, part of a closed canon, as sacrosanct, as ...

Make a list of the subjects that cause people to bristle when told they’re doing it all wrong. Sex, politics and religion have to be the top three, right? I suppose parenting is up there, though not ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

Michael Stevens and Nicolas Fredrickson are good friends who meet weekly for Bible study. While they liked studying the contents of the Bible, they were less than impressed with the design and ...

Since its opening in 2005, the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) in New York City has mounted first-rate exhibitions on biblical themes. Whether looking at the Bible through the eyes of Georges Rouault ...

Reading the Bible should not be dull. Have you ever noticed that the reading of the Scripture lesson often reaches a low point in listener attention? This happens in Sunday school classes, women’s and ...

Karen Armstrong’s book, The Lost Art of Scripture, studies the role and the place of holy texts — at best seen as negligible, at worst a manipulative tool for justifying violence and fundamentalism — ...

Last week, the Sunday Gospel began reading Matthew 13, a chapter that contains multiple parables about the Kingdom of Heaven. We began with the Parable of the Sower and Seed, discussing the fate of ...