Posts in category Knowing the Word

In the very earliest days of the New Testament and hardly before the ink was dry, the church already faced a pernicious error. Marcion of …

Whatever else we would say about Luke’s story of the angels and the shepherds, it’s definitely memorable. But less clear is the point. Why did …

There’s a very striking story about a man who never learned to read but who had a well-worn Bible. Someone asked him why the pages …

We’ve written before about binge reading the Bible—the idea of getting through the entire book in a short enough time that you can still remember …

Ranging from complex to simple, here are four Bible study tools that are fully online, completely free, and will help you more thoroughly engage with Scripture.

If you read our last post, I talked about recently having the privilege of giving a solid week to nothing but Bible reading. Going from cover to …

I like crazy challenges—the kind that are appealing to you specifically because they’re undoable. Like when I thought running 5 miles was epically long and then …

We’re about to start a new year. If you read the Bible through each year, you’re about to start over with Genesis. Then comes Exodus. …

Everybody loves a good story, and Scripture has some of the best. Try to read through the story of Esther without laughing at the ironies. …

Unsurprisingly, politics has brought abortion back into the public discourse, because in her last debate, the person who will in all likelihood become the next president …