Bunni Pounds, a political fundraiser-turned-Christian organizer, has recruited nearly 500 Christian leaders to read the Bible aloud from cover to cover in Washington this April.
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 ...
There still is tremendous power in a person publicly reading the Bible well. " Devote yourself to the public reading of Scripture, " (1 Timothy 4:13). Only a few readers are monotoned, but many ...
Books that interpret the Bible are a cornerstone of the religion and spirituality market. And while the text itself has endured for nearly two millennia, publishers agree that its cultural and ...
Julia Watts Belser has written a book about joy, a political manifesto, a cry from the heart, and a spiritual companion. A queer and feminist rabbi, spiritual teacher, scholar of disability in both ...
We didn’t fully understand the experiment we were beginning, but this was the question driving our search, the point of curiosity that started our not-quite-scientific process. As women who were once ...
‘One hundred years from my day,” Voltaire is supposed to have remarked, “there will not be a Bible on earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker.” Things haven’t worked ...
Christians should love, and live in, all 66 books of the Bible: Every Christian should love God of course. And given that the ...
“Listening to the word in the liturgy teaches us to listen to the truth of reality. In the midst of the many voices present in our personal lives and in society, Sacred Scripture helps us to recognize ...
I spoke with Bunni Pounds for a radio segment about this upcoming event. She told our listeners: “On April 18-25, we’re going to be in Washington, D.C. We’re going to have 475 of our national leaders ...