I can’t do justice to the fascinating, learned, and provocative e-mails you sent me about Jonah and the whale. Everyone—and I mean everyone—loves that story. Let me touch briefly on the question that ...

Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...

As the celebration of Christmas draws closer, in Bible reading and study, many people focus especially on the Old Testament prophesies concerning the Messiah. Of course, there are the passages from ...

The Book of Micah is just seven chapters in nine pages. Yet Julia O’Brien, professor of Old Testament at Lancaster Theological Seminary, has written a 141-page book on the work of Micah, one of the 12 ...

The prophets give us a profound witness to the power of prayer. The prophet Elijah is the chief among the holy group, which is why he is so highlighted in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, but ...

The unlikely pairing of Hosea and Gomer might be one of the most unusual in the Bible, even more so than the much-better-known David and Goliath or Jonah and the whale. Hosea was commanded by God to ...

To what extent is it correct that scholars differ on whether or not prophets are infallible against minor sins? Which opinion is predominant? Is a person who believed in the first opinion for a period ...