Jaime L. Waters serves as associate professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University and as “The Word” columnist at America since the first Sunday of Advent in 2019. A biblical studies professor, Dr ...

How does our doctrine of scripture relate to what we believe about the church? And how does what we believe about the church shape how we think about and interpret scripture? Theologian Brad East ...

People who are approaching the Bible for the first time may be surprised to discover that the Church offers us only three basic guidelines for reading it. These are: 1. Be especially attentive “to the ...

The need to engrave Scripture on our hearts feels all the more urgent this year. Turning to Scripture should be an intuitive response for Christians when we feel anxious about the world we live in.

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 ...

COLUMBIA — From Bible study groups to Sunday school programs, countless groups of people in Columbia gather throughout the week to discuss sacred Scripture in an effort to better understand it and ...

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book, by John Barton. Viking. 640 pages. $35. The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts, by Karen Armstrong. Knopf. 624 ...

As digital reading habits rewire our brains, how will we process the Bible differently? Christianity is a religion of the Word. Christians are a “People of the Book.” These distinctives have defined ...

MOORHEAD — He never planned on reading the Bible 100 times, but by Aug. 4, that’s exactly what Jerry Mykleseth had accomplished. It took nearly 33 years, and even though he’s reached this milestone, ...

STARTING OFF THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR WITH A VOCAL REMINDER OF ITS VALUES. THE CAMPUS COMMUNITY IS ASKED TO SIGN UP TO READ FROM THE BIBLE. AS GABRIELLE KOMOROWSKI SHOWS US, IT’S A NEARLY WEEK LONG ...

This year brings Latter-day Saints back to the Book of Mormon in our “Come, Follow Me” curriculum, so I want to highlight some new resources that can help. Actually, I should say that they not only ...

The 32 speakers referred to the Bible 297 times at April’s international general conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They referenced the Book of Mormon 226 times, according ...