You open your Bible with good intentions, then five minutes later you’re staring at a genealogy that reads like a phone book, wondering how Hezekiah connects to anything you’ve ever heard in church.

“You have heard it said … but I tell you…” Every time Jesus says these words, he is correcting the abuse of scripture and the theological heresy such abuse causes. Jesus understood that scripture is ...

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 context or framework. (There are also some other ...

About Paul’s writings, Peter said that they, “contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other scriptures, to their destruction” (2 Pet ...

Cultural anthropologists tell us that one of the characteristics of our postmodern age is a disregard for history. Catholicism itself, however, exists in a tradition that recognizes doctrinal ...

The unintended consequences of concordances offers a warning to Christians today. I open my Bible to 1 Peter 2:8: “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” By “open,” I ...

Pope Leo XIV greets people at the conclusion of his weekly general audience in the Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican Feb. 4, 2026. Credit: CNS photo/Vatican Media The following is the text from ...

Editor's note: This is the fifth column in a series on Israel. Column four: One text, with many perspectives Column three: Jewish traditions, fact vs. truth Column two: Israel: Land, nation, people, ...

(The Conversation) — A historian of the Bible in American life explains how Bible verses are being picked out of context to make a case for the anti-vaxxer movement. (The Conversation) — A devout ...

A devout evangelical Christian friend of mine recently texted to explain why he was not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. “Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy ...