(RNS) — Asked about the Gospel of Matthew, Johnson answered with the Book of Leviticus. There's a reason for that.

I don’t go looking for trouble. In truth, I prefer peace to provocation and calm to conflict. Yet when God’s Word is misused, mishandled, and misapplied, silence is not sanctified. Folks, there comes ...

Prayer has always been the heartbeat of Christian life. For centuries, believers have turned to traditional prayers to s ...

BYU professor Shon Hopkin offers strategies for understanding the imagery, symbolism and poetry of the words of Isaiah in the ...

Think of the Gospels as four portraits -- each one created by a different theological artist -- all studying and ...

Superficial reading of some early texts in Acts seem to suggest the ideal of Christian communal property ownership, or ...

Five hundred years ago the first Bible featuring a map was published. The anniversary has passed uncelebrated, but it transformed the way that Bibles were produced. The map appeared in Christopher ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s 1525 map is the first ever printed in a bible, but there’s just one problem: it was printed backwards. The document nonetheless stands as a transition point between the ...

An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the "belief in multiple ...

Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s Old Testament (Zürich, 1525) in The Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge. Credit: The Master and Fellows of Trinity ...

Nimrod, the first biblical king after the floods, has been the object of mystery and intrigue to historians and biblical scholars for millennia. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Nimrod, ...