Answer: The world of the Old Testament included many good people of faith, but their lives were often ruled by tyranny, wars, injustice, sin and unfaithfulness. The Old Testament records God speaking ...
Chosen by Andrew Abernethy, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, coeditor of “The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness,” and author of “Savoring Scripture: A Six-Step Guide to Studying the ...
The elders of the Jews continued to make progress in the building, supported by the message of the prophets, Haggai and Zechariah, son of Iddo. ―Ezra 6:14a Return to me—and I will return to you, say ...
The death of Walter Brueggemann on June 5, 2025, occasioned an outpouring of reflections on and appreciations of his extraordinary life of scholarship and service, one defined by erudition as well as ...
It’s May and the weather in my part of Ohio is unseasonably cold and cloudy. It’s been perfect reading weather, in fact, especially when coupled with the sheltering at home and inadvisability of ...
The sins of a people. We stand to risk our democracy and our civilization in the current barbarism we find all around us.