The use of art as a bridge to Scripture and faith was one of the more fascinating subjects discussed at the October Synod of Bishops on the Bible. And one of the most interesting talks on that subject ...

Pastor and artist Joseph Novak talks text and symbol. For millennia, biblical literature has shaped imagination and culture. "The Minimum Bible," a project from pastor and artist Joseph Novak ...

Randy Rosenthal has a master’s in theological studies from Harvard University, where he teaches writing. We usually think of scripture as a written text, part of a closed canon, as sacrosanct, as ...

Make a list of the subjects that cause people to bristle when told they’re doing it all wrong. Sex, politics and religion have to be the top three, right? I suppose parenting is up there, though not ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

Since its opening in 2005, the Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA) in New York City has mounted first-rate exhibitions on biblical themes. Whether looking at the Bible through the eyes of Georges Rouault ...

What this artsy trend among Christian women shows us about offline spirituality. Lately I’ve been more than a little intimidated by the pictures people are posting of their Scripture art-journaling on ...

This exhibit juxtaposes biblical art with text in creative ways, combining bibles from Archives & Special Collections with a selection of washi prints from the travelling exhibit Beauty Given by Grace ...

With the release of the movie Noah a couple of weeks away, the waters of controversy are already rising fast. I've seen the movie's final cut, and director Darren Aronofsky's re-envisioning of the ...

(RNS) — In the last decade, independent projects like Bibliotheca have brought an eye for design to the Bible — and shown big Bible publishers there’s a market for it. (RNS) — At first, social media ...