Scripture
Taking the Bible seriously means reading it figurally
What scripture means is not reducible to what it once meant.
A climate scientist talks—respectfully—to climate-change skeptics
“My message is that you don’t have to change who you are to care about this issue.”
The New Testament in the strange words of David Bentley Hart
Greek and English do not work the same way. So what does it mean to create a literal translation?
Psalm 91 in every time and place
“No evil shall befall us,” said St. Anthony in the desert, preachers during the Rwandan genocide, and Americans after 9/11.
Reading the Bible with a sacramental sensibility
Hans Boersma sees scripture as more open to imaginative reading than our modern methods permit. The key is faith in Christ.
Climate change and the failure of incarnational nerve
Do we really want God to live with us in a poisoned and degraded world?
How new is the new Christian Zionism?
There have been many Zionisms over the years. Only one has imagined an eventual end of Judaism.
Saul, David, and the morality of power
How shrewdly the drama of mixed motives, mixed loyalties, and mixed feelings unfolds.
A feast of scriptural language
Sarah Ruden writes some of the most sumptuous words about Bible words I’ve ever read.
The grace of real and virtual presence
Theologian Deanna Thompson used to criticize the pervasive technological creep overtaking our lives. Then she was diagnosed with cancer.
