Jaime L. Waters serves as associate professor of Catholic studies at DePaul University and as “The Word” columnist at America since the first Sunday of Advent in 2019. A biblical studies professor, Dr ...

New strategies for interpreting Scripture turn out to be not so new—and deepen our life in Christ. A wide range of voices claims that a crisis of biblical interpretation is taking place. But contrary ...

Podcaster Tara Leigh Cobble encourages Christians to “look for God,” instead of themselves, while reading the Bible.

People who are approaching the Bible for the first time may be surprised to discover that the Church offers us only three basic guidelines for reading it. These are: 1. Be especially attentive “to the ...

The church fathers show us how to read Scripture imaginatively. When I was a pastor in the 1970s, I introduced my congregation to the Serendipity Bible study materials. Small-groups pioneer Lyman ...

The modern Bible is the product of translations and interpretations that span centuries. But a true understanding of its meaning should take into account its origins in Jewish culture, according to ...

The independent fundamentalist church I went to as a boy gave me a fantastic amount of Bible knowledge. There were Bible drills in Sunday School, Bible memory contests, and Bible quizzes, not to ...

At a moment when scripture was far more fluid, different Jewish communities may have kept different scrolls, though all would have had the Torah, the Psalms, and Isaiah. Jesus usually quotes from this ...