THE text of Scriptures draws its meaning from its context. Even in our natural normal day communication, none of us would want to be quoted out of context. It therefore follows that we have no leeway ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. – In Margaret Nutting Ralph’s first book, “And God Said What?: An Introduction to Biblical Literary Forms” (Paulist Press, $18.95), published in 1986, Ralph wrote from the standpoint of ...

Students in Christian colleges have too often assigned a kind of second-class academic citizenship to Bible courses, feeling that these courses will not tax them intellectually and that they have ...

I read with great interest two Spotlight letters in the Jan. 9 Readers’ Forum (“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone” by Emily Gill, “Where’s the Sermon on the Mount when you need it?” by ...

Readings: Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 I cannot say that I dislike or disapprove of the saying. I use it myself. But I still stiffen when someone says, ...