Sing the “Mean” Psalms
by Peter J. LeithartImprecatory psalms ground us in the real world, counteracting our instinct for over-spiritualized, anodyne, Pollyannaish piety. Continue Reading »
The Best Catholic Bible
by Leroy HuizengaOf the making of Bibles, it seems, there is no end. When I was growing up in the eighties and nineties, there were three dominant translations: Mainline Protestants had the Revised Standard Version (the major American Bible in the Tyndale–King James tradition), and then the . . . . Continue Reading »
COVID-19 and The Ickabog
by Sarah RindnerIntentionally or not, The Ickabog may be the most serious literary indictment of the mass response to the COVID-19 epidemic published to date. Continue Reading »
Epiphany at Cana
by Peter J. LeithartBy turning water to wine, Jesus reveals that he comes to transform the old order, with its purity rules, into a new order of joyful celebration. Continue Reading »
China’s Threat to the Bible
by Nina SheaAmerican Bible publishers can best preserve Americans’ First Amendment rights—and their own reputations—by immediately shifting their printing out of China. Continue Reading »
The Gospel and the Natural Law
by Andrew WalkerThe Bible insists that our knowledge of the moral law—and our violation of it—renders us guilty before God. Continue Reading »
Fierce Hope
by Peter J. LeithartAbraham’s hope and Job’s despair grow from the same soil; they are alternative stances toward death. Continue Reading »
The Business of Bible Translation
by John WilsonDaniel Taylor’s novel Woe to the Scribes and Pharisees asks readers who believe that the Bible really is “the Word of God” to think carefully about what that entails. Continue Reading »
Tobit or Not Tobit
by Jonathan ReimerAs Iain Provan observes in his recent book The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture, the Protestant reading of Scripture lies “in some disarray.” Historical-critical readers, intent on recovering original texts and authorial meanings, have undermined the ability of Scripture to . . . . Continue Reading »
Rebekah's Ultrasound
by Deborah WarrenJacob and Esau struggled in the womb right from the start. Rebekah’s ultrasound, quite early on, revealed the embryos: yin and yang, two fat big-headed commas grappled together head to toe;Rebekah only twenty weeks along,they were duking it out in there already. The sonogram was the usual fuzzy . . . . Continue Reading »
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