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  • 5 Jan 2012
    Occupy and reading the Bible after Christendom

    "What would Jesus do?” Questions being asked by the Occupy movement are a symptom of an even wider movement to read the Bible in news ways, as the alliance of church and state breaks up, says New Testament specialist Lloyd Pietersen. He suggest three interpretative moves that have to be made to re-connection with biblical texts today.

  • 8 Apr 2011
    Is a 'secular bible' good enough?

    It is not the non-theistic philosophy that is dismaying in Grayling’s new 'secular bible', says Maggi dawn. It’s the sheer failure of imagination of someone who will dismiss the real Bible as mumbo jumbo, while putting their own uninspiring prose out there as an alternative.

  • 9 Mar 2011
    International Women's Day call to read the Bible 'through a gender lens'

    Global commemorations of International Women's Day have included a public call for reading the Bible "through a gender lens".

  • 8 Dec 2010
    Asian challenge to distorted biblical readings that cost the earth

    Asian Christian leaders have challenged a distorted interpretation of the Genesis story about God telling humans to "subdue" the earth.

  • 25 Oct 2010
    Thinking theologically: Bible, tradition, reason and experience
  • 10 Sep 2010
    Harvey Cox on getting to grips with the Bible

    Eminent theologian and long-time Harvard Divinity School professor Harvey Cox will give the Massachusetts Bible Society's 2010 Harrell F. Beck Lecture Series entitled "Coming to Grips with the Bible".

  • 2 Aug 2010
    Turning the Bible into a weapon against the 'other'

    Anglican Archbishop Nicholas Okoh and his allies claim to speak for "Bible-believing" Christians or those seeking to defend the cultures of Africa, Asia and Latin America from malign western influences, says Savi Hensman. Yet neither claim holds water.

  • 23 Feb 2010
    Standing by 'biblical truth'?

    When televangelist Pat Robertson made his much decried comments last month about the Haiti earthquake being divine punishment for a "pact with the devil", critics and defenders alike took him at his word that he was asserting a "biblical view". This just goes to show how little we know.

  • 9 Feb 2010
    The world's storms waiting to be stilled

    How do we handle scriptural passages about the goodness of creation and nature stilled by the power of God in a world that produces the Haiti earthquake? Simon Barrow looks at storms stilled and storms unstilled in the light of Christ.

  • 1 Jan 2010
    Not following the star

    The story of the Magi has touched the hearts and stirred the imagination of many through the ages, says Savi Hensman. But the story has a wry twist which does not flatter the religiously self-righteous.