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.

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 ...

FaithTime has launched its Bible Lessons Library, an accessible collection of teaching articles created to help readers understand Scripture with clarity and confidence. The library addresses a ...

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 ...

Readings: Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 I cannot say that I dislike or disapprove of the saying. I use it myself. But I still stiffen when someone says, ...

An elderly lady went to see Shakespeare's Hamlet on stage for the first time in her life. Asked afterwards how she enjoyed the play, she replied: “I thought it was very good, but I was surprised that ...

All of these verses have been lifted out of context and repurposed to buttress the anti-vaccine movement. As a historian of the Bible in American life, I can attest that such shallow reading in ...

Jim Slitor's May 30 letter, “Old Testament not guide for behavior,” took Scripture out of context. The Bible is God's love letter to humanity. The Old Testament shows us the law that God's holiness ...