Malachi is the last book in the Old Testament as Christians organize the scriptures and it is the last voice to be heard in the Book of the …
It was a profound shock to the people of Judah when the City of Jerusalem fell to the army of the Babylonians in the early years of the 6th …
If you were to search the Scriptures for a book called II Zechariah, you would not find it. There is only a single fourteen-chapter book called Zechariah, buried in …
In my career as a bishop I have known churches that spent great time and effort on liturgy and worship. It was clearly the focus, the reason for being, …
Not every character in the Bible starts out to be a hero. Indeed, one of the great themes of biblical literature is that it is the meek and the …
Hosea is probably my favorite of all the prophets in the Hebrew Scriptures. His story is so real and so compelling and his expansion of the meaning of God …
History is not well served by the way the Bible is organized. For example, the Torah (Genesis-Deuteronomy), which seems to tell a continuous story, was actually written over a …
If I were to ask an ordinary group of people, even church people, to tell me about the message of the prophet we call II Isaiah, I suspect I …
The name of the Torah’s fifth and final book according
to the Bible is Deuteronomy. That name comes to us from the
combination of two Greek words: “deutero,” …
Most people do not seem to realize that events in what we call the secular world of history shaped so much of the writing of the biblical story. …