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.

Editor's Note: The following illustration from the book Fill These Hearts shows the need to put the Bible or theological statements into their proper context or framework. (There are also some other ...

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 ...

About Paul’s writings, Peter said that they, “contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other scriptures, to their destruction” (2 Pet ...

How should we approach seemingly inconsistent messages in sacred texts? Religious types insist that contradictions in sacred scriptures are not cardinal flaws. They blame it on artistic classification ...

“The Bible says.” It usually comes with confidence. Sometimes conviction. Occasionally, finality. Conversation over. But over the past year, I’ve found myself pausing more when I hear it – not out of ...

What Do We Mean by “Context”? What do we mean by ‘context’? We don’t always use the word, but we all bring context with us when we read the Bible. Our experiences. Our u ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — A historian of the Bible in American life explains how Bible verses are being picked out of context to make a case for the anti-vaxxer movement. (The Conversation) — A devout ...