In two recent articles in Forbes Magazine, Mr. Jerry Bowyer has taken Pope Francis to task not for his economics as such but for supporting his “lefty” economics (Bowyer’s word not mine) with bad ...

Scholars are now using advanced algorithms to tackle one of history’s biggest literary mysteries — who wrote and edited the Bible. By combining statistical word-frequency analysis with traditional ...

In my previous two installments on this site I have examined what we can ascertain about the “wise men” or Magi, and what astronomy tells us about conjunctions (planetary alignments, as viewed from ...

A Protestant considers a Catholic theologian’s call for an “ecclesial” reading of Scripture. On November 10, 1942, following a British victory in Egypt during World War II, Winston Churchill famously ...

Aquinas has a remarkable discussion of biblical hermeneutics. Actually, it may only be “remarkable” for us, that is, we moderns who prize the historico-critical approach to Sacred Scripture and thus ...

Contrary to the claims of some Protestant apologists (and not a few Catholics, for that matter), Catholics actually have a wide freedom to read and interpret the Bible (provided, of course, they read ...

Operation Pillar of Defense is making headlines around the world, with media outlets choosing to highlight different aspects of the conflict. While some papers predictably choose to focus on the ...

Walter Brueggemann’s 50-year career as a biblical scholar, prolific speaker and author has demonstrated both the inexhaustible nature of the Bible as sourcebook and the insatiable need of today’s ...

For millennia, biblical literature has shaped imagination and culture. "The Minimum Bible," a project from pastor and artist Joseph Novak highlights that tradition, using graphic design to sum up each ...