I listened attentively while cooking dinner at my parents’ house to my mother reading Bible stories to my 3-year-old son. They were at the part of the story of the sons of Jacob, when Joseph’s ...

Reading the Bible should not be dull. Have you ever noticed that the reading of the Scripture lesson often reaches a low point in listener attention? This happens in Sunday school classes, women’s and ...

Staff and congregants of Beach Road Church in Southport began the new year with a public reading of the entire Bible in the ...

Last Sunday, the readings introduced us to Bartimaeus, the blind man, who decided to follow Jesus even though he had the option to stay behind in Jericho. This Sunday, the readings introduce some key ...

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 ...

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 ...

We didn’t fully understand the experiment we were beginning, but this was the question driving our search, the point of curiosity that started our not-quite-scientific process. As women who were once ...

(RNS) — ‘What does it look like to tell the Good News through the stories of women who are often on the margins of scripture and often set up to represent bad news?’ asks the Rev. Wilda Gafney. (RNS) ...

Frequency of participation in prayer, scripture study or religious education groups among adults who say their holy scripture is the word of God but should not be taken literally who read scripture ...