Books In Review: Freeing Philemon from the “fugitive slave” theory Stephen Young lets Paul’s letter speak for itself. by Nijay K. Gupta March 9, 2022
Books In Review: Seeing Black people in scripture Esau McCaulley’s book reclaims what the Black church has always known. by Jessica Hooten Wilson December 10, 2020
Books In Review: The Old Testament, the Tanakh, and the Hebrew Bible Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler show how multiple traditions arise when different people read the same text. by George C. Heider November 24, 2020
Books In Review: What the Bible actually says about abortion, slavery, and other controversial topics Should scripture inform our ethics? How, and which parts? by Jane McBride November 12, 2019
On the Shelf In Review: Why I’m reading Nyasha Junior If we want our biblical interpretation to align with the fullness of who Christ is, we need new lenses. by Christena Cleveland April 23, 2019
Books In Review: How Rachel Held Evans bears the beauty and the burden of reading the Bible The creative retellings in Inspired model an account of inspiration that is as much a spiritual practice as a religious doctrine. by Ashleigh D. Elser April 22, 2019
First Person Bruised and blessed by scripture My hermeneutic of suspicion wasn’t enough. I needed a hermeneutic of the hip. by Emmy Kegler March 20, 2019
Books In Review: An anti-Enlightenment ax to grind Craig Carter's book makes good points—and undermines them with his use of polemic. by Brad East February 4, 2019
Books In Review: Dwelling together in scripture’s room How can preachers and listeners develop a practice of lingering with the text? by Anne-Marie Ellithorpe December 28, 2018
Books In Review: N. T. Wright’s creative reconstruction of Paul and his world Wright tells a great story. Would the apostle recognize it? by Susan Grove Eastman September 26, 2018
Books 4 Bible storybooks that leave space for children’s imagination In God's kingdom, sometimes less is more. by Emily Zimbrick-Rogers August 10, 2018
Books In Review: Biblical hospitality Joshua Jipp's book does something few biblical scholars attempt: it offers explicit proposals for the church. by Greg Carey April 2, 2018
Books In Review: Taking the Bible seriously means reading it figurally What scripture means is not reducible to what it once meant. by Jason Micheli March 2, 2018
Books In Review: Reading the Bible as a feminist From creation to Mary Magdalene, Barbara E. Reid offers convincing alternatives to sexist interpretations of scripture. by Julie Morris February 28, 2018
Books In Review: Did the exodus really happen? A new book challenges the scholarly consensus about one of the Hebrew Bible's central stories. by Philip Jenkins February 12, 2018