Scripture
A reading list for seminarians and other Catholic conservatives
By Thomas Reese — March 14, 2023
(RNS) — Books changed my life. They can change yours too.
The Jewish roots of the Eucharist
By Thomas Reese — January 31, 2023
(RNS) — Today’s Christian Eucharist is a combination of the Jewish synagogue service and Passover meal as adapted by the early Jewish Christians.
How the Museum of the Bible produces a white evangelical Bible
By Yonat Shimron — November 21, 2022
(RNS) — The book, 'Does Scripture Speak for Itself?' argues that the Washington, D.C., institution produces a benevolent white evangelical Bible that resists critique.
Tips to get news junkies through a distracting Lent
By Thomas Reese — March 1, 2022
(RNS) — Some demons, Jesus said, can only be cast out by prayer and fasting.
Mark, a Gospel for Ordinary Time
By Thomas Reese — January 11, 2022
(RNS) — Of the four Gospel writers, Mark is the one you would not want to invite to dinner. But he is the one who will challenge you to listen more carefully and to think more deeply about Jesus.
Deconstruction is a valid Christian practice. Ask Martin Luther.
By Andre Henry — January 5, 2022
(RNS) — Deconstruction has long been seen as a healthy expression of Christian faithfulness.
Thomas Jefferson’s Quran to visit Dubai Expo 2020
By Joseph Hammond — October 8, 2021
(RNS) — The historic English-language Quran has never traveled outside the United States.
Woe to you, Washington! Woe to you, New York!
By Thomas Reese — October 4, 2021
(RNS) — God does not punish us. He tells us when we are punishing ourselves.
‘One belief kind of fell after the other’
By Renée Roden — July 27, 2021
'Deconstruction is unlearning what has been instilled into you on a deep and permanent level. Unlearning emotional habits you learn from the church.'
‘I knew absolutely nothing about my own religion. Everything I knew was basically hearsay’
By Renée Roden — July 27, 2021
'I got so many heartfelt messages, messages where people said "this is so helpful for me."'
Have a digital Lent to get through the pandemic
By Thomas Reese — February 16, 2021
(RNS) — How Alexa might help us celebrate Lent better.
Why reading the Bible with reason and emotion alone doesn’t satisfy us
By Jason Gaboury — October 1, 2020
(RNS) — Our two usual modes of reading Scripture, rationalism and emotionalism, ignore an essential way that we make connections and maintain satisfying relationships with God.
How to pray, talk and act across faiths without betraying your own
By Omar Suleiman — June 24, 2020
(RNS) — Interfaith work means saying ‘Amen’ to other people’s invocations and reading others’ Scripture. At what point is accommodating other faiths’ beliefs still fruitful?
After St. John’s, thinking differently about a president, a Bible and race
By Nick Hall — June 4, 2020
(RNS) — Be glad President Donald Trump is holding the Bible, not because he is the embodiment of its words, but because it offers the fruits of the Spirit that he, and all of us, need.
Spirituality in a time of quarantine
By Thomas Reese — March 15, 2020
(RNS) — It is time to put the common good over our personal good; it is time to respect science not partisan spin masters; it is time to be our better selves.
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