Our bodies and our biblical interpretations seem to be involved in a long-running, secret affair. The implications may be both liberating and scandalous.

Science and religion are still doing a wary dance around each other.

Death, insanity and heresy await the unwary who dabble in heavenly mysteries.

Do you recognize it when you see it?

The law is an essential precondition for the gospel: When Jesus and Paul speak, they speak the language of law.

We should produce a new critical edition of the Bible containing a better and more nearly original text.

The Hebrew Bible suggests three possible ways to attain immortality

What would happen if we actually taught the biblical creation story in the science classroom?

The holy mountain is shrouded in mystery, its location seemingly unknowable. Perhaps that is what makes it holy.

How common practice becomes ritual law

Is what the historical David did or said more important than what the Bible relates?

The minimalists are right to question what we know anout the time when the Bible was composed, but they are wrong in their conclusions.

Modern maps show David’s kingdom reaching to the Euphrates. But what does the Bible say?

The Hebrew Bible was born out of suffering and loss

The Bible weaves together narrative, folklore, history and religion, but that doesn’t make it a “False Testament.”

The Bible preserves hints of Stone Age rites that retained their holiness for millennia.

Maybe Solomon didn’t build the gate at Megiddo. So what?

Scientists are looking in the wrong place

Wartime reports from Palestine mask the truth.

Legalizing the Decalogue would destroy freedom as we know it