If ever there was a richer set of readings to ponder or exegete than the set from today, I have yet to see it. The third Sunday in Ordinary Time is set aside by the church as Word of God Sunday. The ...

THE LIFE of Jesus Christ has always been of interest to film-makers. The first feature-length film was released in 1906; by the time of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 blockbuster “The King of Kings” at least ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a SpokaneFāVS series on how sacred texts are used in various religious traditions. Catholics believe that the Bible isn’t just one book but a collection of unique books.

The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to convey a ...

New River Valley theologian and pastor Andrew Taylor-Troutman explores the stories of Jesus and his own experience as a father in “Parables of Parenthood: Interpreting the Gospels with Family.” ...

In a well-known talk, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addressed the dangers of a single story: about the tendency to collapse rich, diverse strands into a flat, one-sided narrative. This ...

I had a classmate many years ago in a course on the New Testament who had an amusing if sometimes startling habit. We would be discussing a difficult passage, perhaps one of the “hard sayings” of ...

a) The synoptic problem, source, form and redaction criticism – an examination of the relationship between the synoptic Gospels, including two source hypothesis (priority of Mark and ‘Q source’), the ...

The Gospels portray Jesus cleansing lepers, healing a hemorrhaging woman, giving life to the dead, casting out unclean spirits, and healing on the sabbath. A long tradition of interpretation reads ...