The curious thing about the Bible is the way it reads itself. Modern and postmodern folk, having talked themselves out of trusting Scripture so that they can more credulously swallow whatever some ...

What is the meaning of Jeremiah 11:11 and why you should take care of yourself? It's fairly common knowledge that numbers in sequence are considered to be angelic messages sent from spiritual beings ...

With this incisive, illuminating book, Martin, a professor of religious studies at Yale University, engages the question needling most contemporary skeptics of a Christian background: how can anyone ...

Last time in this space, I wrote a little piece on the ways in which the various Protestantisms filter the sometimes ambiguous text of Scripture through various semi-permeable membranes in order to ...

Trends in biblical interpretation come and go, even while the basic text has endured for almost two millennia. New and forthcoming biblical studies books can’t leave the apostle Paul alone, continue ...

The question of biblical interpretation has returned to the centre of theological discussion today. Hermeneutics is no longer relegated to a backroom. It is one of the most prominent preoccupations of ...

Have you ever taken a lesson lightly? Sure you have, we all have to some degree. When I was in school, I hated English, all those punctuations and diagrams, verbs, subjects. I just couldn’t get my ...