We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...

Linus once remarked to Charlie Brown that he always felt guilty reading the New Testament. When Charlie Brown asked why, he replied, “Because I always feel as though I’m reading somebody else’s mail.” ...

Although contemporary debates focus mainly on what we should and should not be reading, it’s just as important to ask why and how we read. Eugene Peterson said that putting the Bible in someone’s ...