Waiting is loving. The extent of one’s love for another can be measured by the degree to which he or she is willing to wait for the person. When was the last time I waited patiently with a ...

Myra Kahn Adams is a conservative political and religious writer with numerous national credits. Her book, "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible," reprints the first 56 volumes of this ...

Biblical teaching generally pushes Christians to advocate for submission to authorities, whether in politics or in the church ...

It is a vital component of the “whole counsel of God.” It is a revealed truth prominently mentioned in the New Testament. As such it ought to be preached and taught to sinful men in each ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

It was a bracing moment, an uncomfortable moment — as it should be. But as the bishop’s sermon ricocheted around the internet ...

It's now consensus in the New Testament scholarship to some extent [that]... in the gospels we're dealing with theologians, people who are reflecting theologically on Jesus already. And there's ...

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Richard Hays, George Washington Ivey distinguished professor emeritus of New Testament, died Friday at his home in Nashville, Tennessee, following a decade-long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Richard Hays, a New Testament scholar and author who challenged conservative Christian opposition to homosexuality by reinterpreting scripture — and shifting his own views along the way — to ...