This Sunday, the readings highlight the Judeo-Christian wisdom tradition found in Scripture. Wisdom literature takes many forms in the Bible. One form is as a set of “sayings,” aphorisms and proverbs, ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

(RNS) — Bible societies are attempting to understand why, in a time when 90% of the world’s population has access to the Christian sacred text, relatively few consider it a foundation of their lives. ...

he has lavished her upon his friends. Today’s readings offer a selection from the Book of Sirach, part of the “wisdom literature” tradition, though not included in the Hebrew Bible nor the Bibles used ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Andrea Williams, the director at 305 8th Street, a group home in Huntsville for adults facing mental disabilities or challenges, suggested one of the women who live in the home ...

Why is the wisdom found in Scripture relevant for you today? How can you grow in your understanding of it?

Whether it is the Bible or other sacred texts, there are two primary themes that weave together the contents. The first is the spiritual Law of Giving and Receiving, which basically states the seeds ...

The Bible is a perennial bestseller, purportedly the top selling book of all time. It can be many things to many people because of its extraordinarily rich and diverse content which includes poetry, ...

One of the biggest ever research projects into scripture is looking into how people use the Bible and what it means to them—an attempt to understand why, in a time when 90 percent of the world’s ...