The Old Testament is vital for understanding the New Testament. It’s also indispensable all by itself. The Old Testament has always been an easy target for critics of Christianity. On the surface, its ...
Presenter: Richard J. Clifford, S.J., Respondent: Michael Simone, S.J., Moderator: Thomas D. Stegman, S.J. The Old Testament serves as more than mere background to the New, but is a constant reference ...
A Liturgy of Grief: A Pastoral Commentary on Lamentations, by Leslie C. Allen (Baker, 208 pp., $21.99 paperback). Sensitive to detail and nuance both in the poetry lamenting Jerusalem’s destruction ...
The Hebrew Scriptures place internal struggles on full display—and teach us a lot about spiritual practice. I had quiet times before I knew they were a requirement for Christian living, and during ...
Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was ...
The Dec. 27 letter from Edward Robinson, "Religious freedom makes us great," claimed that the Old Testament is distinguished by "preachings of hate and retribution." It is important to rebut this long ...
Thanks for joining us for a two-part series on the topic of weakness – a feeling that we've all experienced at one time or another —maybe even daily. The Lord uses weakness to bring us closer to Him.
This Strange and Sacred Scripture: Wrestling with the Old Testament and Its Oddities, by Matthew Richard Schlimm. The Old Testament is deeply and sometimes distressingly strange to modern Christians ...
Brent Strawn was teaching at a Methodist church in Atlanta when he asked his class to identify the origin of Jesus' well-known cry from the cross - "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Silence ...
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