I t’s hard to imagine a more influential book than the Bible. When its ancient Old Testament and not-quite-as-ancient New Testament are taken into account, the Bible has been a part of the human ...

The Old Testament has trained us for it. If Jefferson is the archetypal difficult figure of American history, his biblical analogue is surely King David: the passionate and poetic psalmist who ...

Praying with the Old Testament. By definition, then, all of us have a spirituality—a way of responding (or not) to the Spirit that has been given.

Rather we must acknowledge that in whatever ways the Old Testament is caught up in human fallenness and cultural specificity, the New Testament is also. At the same time, I would urge that both ...

Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

Got religion? Well, it's time you lost it, says the Rev. Andrew Farley in his new book, "God without Religion." Christians need no spiritual relationship with the Old Testament, including the Ten C… ...