Considering how often the Bible is characterized as a great work of literature, it is rarely read like one. Few would suggest a piecemeal approach to Crime and Punishment, jumping from chapter to ...
Early in her brand-new nonfiction book Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson points out that when Adam and Eve fell, God did not curse them. Yes, God cursed the ground, but he did not curse his human ...
The Genesis 11 story is about pride, but not in the way we think. In this Close Reading series, biblical scholars reflect on a passage in their area of expertise that has been formational in their own ...
College of the Ozarks will be part of a national cover-to-cover Bible-reading event just before the 250th birthday of the United States.
Effective biblical engagement must be about more than one’s personal experience with Scripture. The disconnect crystalized 12 years ago when I (Dru) started teaching an introductory Old Testament ...