Last week, we broached the doctrine of creation by emphasizing the distinctive teaching of Judaism and Christianity: everything that exists comes from the hand of God. While the question of how God ...

This is the third article in a short “Genesis January” series to help people explore the complexity of the Bible at the start of a new year. We live in a restless generation. My husband and I have ...

Lonely, on the run from the papal henchmen, and chagrined at being out of the public eye, Martin Luther holed up in Wartburg Castle and began translating: “Am Anfang schuf Gott Himmel und Erde” (Gen.

Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

What you need to know: The Easter story, to a keen Christian, begins not in the Gospels but in Genesis. God created Adam and Eve for a relationship and partnership with Him as seen in Genesis 1:26-27: ...

Editor's Intro: Will Stevens is the author of God's Givers. In it he traces a theology of giving through the Old Testament, focusing on seven stories. To go along with the book he has created a ...

The esteemed novelist and essayist offers an ambitious but narrow bid to rekindle religion as a source of grounding in the 21st century The late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking was an out, loud, ...