SPRING ARBOR — Reasoned discourse used to be exactly that: reasoned and civil conversation. Now neither conversation nor reason has anything to do with public debate. Whoever shouts the loudest, buys ...

The Bible and many other religions urge everyone to love all of mankind. Is this realistic? To answer this question it is necessary to consider the mind, because it makes all decisions. The mind is ...

Throughout the history of Christianity, followers of Jesus have earnestly sought to interpret Scripture faithfully and objectively, often believing they were applying rigorous, objective methods to ...

2) figurative / symbolic / allegorical interpretation. 3) a mixture of both. Does either the Bible or Catholicism require, for example, the serpent in Genesis to be taken absolutely literally in all ...

The history of American Bible interpretation can give us some answers. Along with workers worried about their jobs and conspiratorial types worried about a robot takeover, many scholars and pastors ...

Marking up copies of pages from the Bible may not be typical when studying the book much of the world considers holy, but Rochelle Zell Jewish High School juniors did to better understand the story of ...

When British Columbia’s Trinity Western University (TWU) received permission to launch a law school in 2016, the spotlight returned to the awkward clash of rights, both of which are guaranteed by the ...

As we mark the 50th anniversary of “Dei Verbum,” the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation, promulgated by Pope Paul VI on Nov. 18, 1965, we note that one effect has been increased study of and ...

I asked ChatGPT to interpret the Sermon on the Mount. Here’s what I learned about AI’s exegetical errors. In the past several months, it has been difficult to avoid discussion of artificial ...