The result, for the Church, is endless dispute over the meaning of texts. Indeed, the early Reformation was split over just such considerations. The background of the current dispute over the place of ...

SCRIPTURE READINGS FOR BACKGROUND TO THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION. St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans ... Matthew 16: 15-20 The commission to Peter; the authority of the Church. The Eucharist Mark 14: ...

As digital reading habits rewire our brains, how will we process the Bible differently? Christianity is a religion of the Word. Christians are a “People of the Book.” These distinctives have ...

Biblical scholar and queer rights activist Matthew R. Vines argued for a BGLTQ-accepting reading of the Bible to a crowd of around fifty College and graduate students Saturday.

New data from the annual State of the Bible survey, conducted by the American Bible Society, shows that Bible use among millennials (now ages 29 to 44) has jumped nearly 30% since ...

Beginning this fall, congregations of the Evangelical Covenant Church will begin a three-year Bible reading experience using Immerse: The Reading Bible. This denomination-wide initiative was ...

Sharp decline may be connected to drop in church attendance. But in 2022, it dropped 11 points. Now only 39 percent say they read the Bible multiple times per year or more.

The following year, on June 17, 1963, the court ruled similarly against school-sponsored Bible readings. Ellery Schempp was the Pennsylvania public high school junior whose complaint about the ...