The ongoing efforts in deep-red states like Florida and Texas to ban books deemed culturally or sexually inappropriate for their depictions of racial injustices and LGBTQ+ content have spawned a ...
An unlikely book has been caught in the crosshairs of mass book removal by districts recently, one that is contrary to a Republican-led attempt toward censorship that frequently draws on Christian ...
Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...
We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...
Frustrated with book challenges and bans in their school district, a parent in Utah decided to submit a complaint of their own — about the Bible. The Davis School District took the parent's objection ...
In May, controversy over “the ultimate American Bible” briefly rocked the Christian publishing world. Big-name Christian authors penned a letter blasting it as “dangerous,” and more than 900 people ...
As Bible sales surge, there is a new book about the Good Book for young readers. “Know the story of the Bible. We can’t know the parts if we don’t know the whole,” encourages Emily Stimpson Chapman, ...
Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and God’s Last ...
To the editor: In the spirit of book banning to protect our youngsters, I decided to check out the world’s best-selling book, the Bible, for any questionable content that could seriously damage the ...
The Moshiach came to Madison Avenue this summer. All over a not particularly Jewish neighborhood, posters of the bearded, Rembrandtesque Rebbe Schneerson appeared, mucilaged to every light post and ...
From a talking donkey to a man being eaten by a giant fish, the Bible has no shortage of strange stories. In her new book "A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible" (Oxford ...