Jim Slitor's May 30 letter, “Old Testament not guide for behavior,” took Scripture out of context. The Bible is God's love letter to humanity. The Old Testament shows us the law that God's holiness ...

You open your Bible with good intentions, then five minutes later you’re staring at a genealogy that reads like a phone book, wondering how Hezekiah connects to anything you’ve ever heard in church.

In reply to John Mallo’s challenge to Christian morality (Letters, Aug. 2 issue), his discussion on the matter is devoid of proper understanding of the Bible. Quoting verses out of context is a ...

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A devout evangelical Christian friend of mine recently texted to explain why he was not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. “Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy ...

A devout evangelical Christian friend of mine recently texted to explain why he was not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. “Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy ...

"Do you really take the Bible literally?" The person who asks can't believe that I am a reasonable human being in the 21st century. I respond by asking, "What do you mean by 'literal'?" So often we ...

Readings: Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 I cannot say that I dislike or disapprove of the saying. I use it myself. But I still stiffen when someone says, ...

In this year’s State of the State address, Gov. Kevin Stitt made an abundance of claims and laid out a series of policies that he will seek in the legislative session to come. He also used a lot of ...

All of these verses have been lifted out of context and repurposed to buttress the anti-vaccine movement. As a historian of the Bible in American life, I can attest that such shallow reading in ...