Should the Bible be read literally or literarily? This question must not only be asked but answered if the Bible is to be read in conformity with the twin demands of faith and reason. As is often the ...

January 05, 2026 – PRESSADVANTAGE – FaithTime has launched its Bible Lessons Library, an accessible collection of teaching articles created to help readers understand Scripture with clarity and ...

TUPELO – What is the Bible? Is it a narrative? A history? A manual for life? “There are several different ways to approach the Bible,” said the Rev. Chris McAlilly, pastor of Oxford University United ...

Translating the Bible well is not just a matter of making it sound good, but also representing what actually goes on in the Hebrew literary text faithfully and accurately. (Volodymyr Zakharov / iStock ...

The local diocesan newspaper here in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, The Catholic Spirit, has a short piece on some comments the Pope sent to the Pontifical Biblical Commission, whose ...

Biblical scholarship was revolutionized in the 19th Century when, in the glow of the Enlightenment, enormous intellectual energy was invested in the development of historical-critical methods that ...

The Bible is widely known as the bestselling book of all time, and reading it helps Christians build a strong foundation of faith. But learning how to read it can pose significant challenges. To start ...

On the first day of talks today at the Synod of Bishops on the Bible, which opened here Oct. 5, one theme seems to be emerging: the desire for a deeply spiritual way of reading Scripture, one that ...

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 ...

Cultural anthropologists tell us that one of the characteristics of our postmodern age is a disregard for history. Catholicism itself, however, exists in a tradition that recognizes doctrinal ...