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P ictures and books and toys insidious were the “exhibits” piled high last week upon a great round table in the lobby of the German Reichstag and labeled Schund und Schmutz (Trash and Smut ...
Dr. Thomas W. Goodspeed, of the University of Chicago, recently modernized the New Testament (TIME, Sept. 3). Now it is announced his colleagues in the Hebrew Department are to do a similar work ...
Three Keys to Wrestling with the Old Testament In my experience, even the most difficult passages (maybe especially those passages) can be a source of blessing when we persist in trying to ...
There’s more to the story of Obed-Edom. The Old Testament features stories of diverse characters whose lives represent God’s people: Rahab, the pagan prostitute who trusted the Lord and was ...
The Huntington Beach Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is bringing back some old-time religion. Really old-time. A full-scale replica of the tabernacle built by Moses and the Israelites, … ...
Palestinian Christians almost disappear amid the seemingly endless brutalizing occupation by the state of Israel and counterviolence of the Pales­tinians. Will Stalder’s Palestinian Chris­tians and ...
Previously we had been talking about the order and organization of the Bible, starting with the sections in Hebrew tradition of the 39 books most Christians call the Old Testament. This general ...
Let’s face it: the Old Testament God was a deity who really needed to rip the amphetamine drip out of his celestial arm. Although the New Testament gave us a kinder, gentler God with a bellyful ...
A last will and testament dating back to 1860 has been discovered gathering dust in an unused mansion—and no one is entirely sure how it got there.
The dichotomy that would pit the “Old Testament God of anger and violence” against the “New Testament God of peace and love” is patently and demonstrably false.