Genesis
New animated Bible series aims to reach post-reading generation
By Fiona André — February 15, 2024
(RNS) — Watching the iBible will appeal to digital natives more than reading Scripture, said Steve Cleary, the project’s creator.
Jordan Peterson wrestles with God
By Meagan Saliashvili — February 15, 2024
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (RNS) — In a new lecture tour to support a forthcoming book, the psychologist and public intellectual hews ever closer to Christianity, tantalizing fans who take their cues on converting from his secular but religiously curious thought.
The Bible suggests even God gets lonely. Why don’t religious people talk more about it?
By Dwight Lee Wolter — January 18, 2024
(RNS) — There is much to be learned from loneliness: prophecy, solidarity, fun, freedom — even creativity.
The passages that got John Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’ banned by a Florida county
By Karen Swallow Prior — January 5, 2024
(RNS) — Would students in the state's Orange County be tempted by the 17th century classic? One can only hope.
Is “Succession” Jewish?
By Jeffrey Salkin — June 1, 2023
The story of “Succession” seems like Shakespeare. Or, like Greek tragedy. And a little Bible as well.
What are pigs for?
By Charles C. Camosy — September 14, 2022
(RNS) — The answer can be found in the Bible.
Vatican astrophysicists offer new way to study gravity after the Big Bang
By Claire Giangravé — May 6, 2022
(RNS) — Speaking from the Vatican observatory, Jesuit Father Gabriele Gionti and Diocesan Father Matteo Galaverni outlined their hopes for unveiling the secrets of the cosmos.
Making religious sense of climate change on small islands
By Mark Silk — March 7, 2022
(RNS) — Some Bible believers look to Noah for an approach to surviving climate change.
Does the Fauci beagle flap mean conservatives are now serious about animal protection?
By Charles C. Camosy — October 27, 2021
(RNS) — Bipartisan pressure, not virtue signaling, is needed to stop biotech’s abuse of animals.
The evangelical sexual abuse crisis is the spiritual warfare of our time
By Karen Swallow Prior — May 4, 2021
(RNS) — My accident taught me what happens to victims of abuse and how trauma works.
God’s on his throne. But we still have to do the work.
By Andre Henry — November 5, 2020
(RNS) — The message to the powerful is ‘God is on the throne; act like it!’
Ahmaud Arbery died for the indefensible principle of white control
By Jemar Tisby — May 8, 2020
(RNS) — The presence of a black body has long been deemed a threat to be contained rather than a neighbor to be loved.
God’s Uber driver in Pittsburgh
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 11, 2019
(RNS) — In a modern Hasidic story, Melchizedek appears as an Uber driver in Pittsburgh.
In Robert Alter’s majestic Bible translation, the achievement is in the details
By A. James Rudin — April 4, 2019
(RNS) — With an accurate, understandable translation that captures the unique sentence structure, style and syntax of the ancient language, Alter has set a new standard for biblical scholarship.
Love is in the air. That’s the problem.
By Manis Friedman — February 13, 2018
(RNS) — Mystical tradition has a take on the story of Adam and Eve that teaches us something essential about our own pursuit of intimacy.
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