Writer Tries to Live the Old Testament Literally

The nominally Jewish writer A. J. Jacobs spent a year working on an unusual experiment: he tried to put into practice everything he read in the Bible. ...

Botched Translation Leads to Tragedy

A good translation or translator really does matter. Professional translator Nataly Kelly tells the following story about what journalists have called ...

We Can't Understand a Story apart from the Context

Editor's Note: The following illustration from the book Fill These Hearts shows the need to put the Bible or theological statements into their proper ...

Puzzle Shows Our Need to Slow Down and Pay Attention

In his book Thinking, Fast and Slow, the Nobel Prize winning economist Daniel Kahneman uses a simple puzzle to show the importance of slowing down and ...

Chesterton on the Support of Tradition

When I fancied that I stood alone, I was really in the ridiculous position of being backed up by all of Christendom.

Learning to Hear God

Eugene Lowry gave this advice to young preachers:

I try to teach my students how to trick themselves into hearing. You have to be out of control. When ...

Whatever Happened to History?

Some [evangelicals] have fixated upon "me and the Bible, and especially me," so that what Bible reading becomes is primarily an assertion of ...

Jesus' Use of Litotes

Finally, Jesus says when we talk to the Father about the family, ask him for protection. "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil ...

No Culture Shock

[In helping others traverse the Scriptures, we can], like Americans junketing in Asia, ... carefully select the itinerary, stop only at Western-style ...

Wrongfully Interpreting Scripture

A new and forced exposition which no reader dreameth of till it be put into his head, is usually to be suspected, lest art deceive us.