The history of American Bible interpretation can give us some answers. Along with workers worried about their jobs and conspiratorial types worried about a robot takeover, many scholars and pastors ...

Interpreting the word of God can be more difficult when the words of the Bible get in our way. Put another way: God’s word is so much more than words. I began to realize that back in the mid-’80s ...

A minister explains how Christians interpret the Bible, especially regarding war, and how personal agendas influence ...

How do liberal Christians interpret the Bible? We begin with an understanding that the Bible is not a single book. This is more critical to scriptural interpretation than it might appear. The Bible is ...

Someone once compared the way people read the Bible with three kinds of home plate umpires. One umpire calls them the way he sees them. Another sees them the way he calls them. And a third kind calls ...

Do you wonder how to read the Bible? Let it read you. When it comes to reading our sacred texts, the trend seems to be read-the-Bible-in-a year schemes and app-based tools that provide access to our ...

In their limited understanding of Christianity, the only true people of God today are conservative Republicans, most of whom ...

For 46 years, the Summer Scripture Conference at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary has brought together curious minds from across the country for presentations on various ...