The following are the basic Biblical interpretative methods which I offer as guidelines for your Bible study. For a clear understanding, please make sure you grab last week’s and next week’s articles.

New strategies for interpreting Scripture turn out to be not so new—and deepen our life in Christ. A wide range of voices claims that a crisis of biblical interpretation is taking place. But contrary ...

Interpreting the word of God can be more difficult when the words of the Bible get in our way. Put another way: God’s word is so much more than words. I began to realize that back in the mid-’80s ...

A cartoon in the New Yorker shows a man making inquiry at the information counter of a large bookstore. The clerk, tapping on his keyboard and peering intently into the computer screen, replies, “The ...

Periodically, folks ask about whether we are supposed to read the Bible literally. The Church does require a literal interpretation of biblical texts. But that does not mean what most Americans ...

The occurrence of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot (the Feast of Weeks), which is observed this year at the end of May and is associated in Jewish tradition with the giving of the Ten Commandments and of ...

Do you wonder how to read the Bible? Let it read you. When it comes to reading our sacred texts, the trend seems to be read-the-Bible-in-a year schemes and app-based tools that provide access to our ...

It seems to me a wonderful irony that Christians in America are preoccupied with debates about biblical authority just when all parties to the debates are less knowledgeable about the content of ...

Interpreting scripture among adults with an education level of high school or less by frequency of reading scripture (2014) Switch to: Frequency of reading scripture among adults with an education ...