This has to be Karen Armstrong’s ultimate tome after all her learned, readable, fascinating and often mesmerizing books on religion in general, myth, Islam, the history of God and more. Beginning with ...

In the spiritual life, we are called to engage our bodies and spiritual souls. The different prayer forms of the Church are meant to help and guide us in this process. We cannot separate our bodies ...

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 ...

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NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / December 4, 2023 / Combining the groundbreaking formal equivalence translation of the Holy Bible from 2020 called the Literal Standard Version with the 54 books of the 2022 ...

Karen Armstrong’s book, The Lost Art of Scripture, studies the role and the place of holy texts — at best seen as negligible, at worst a manipulative tool for justifying violence and fundamentalism — ...

Jonathan Linebaugh’s pastoral, accessible invitation to Scripture is rightly focused on Christ but uncertain in its audience and too quiet about the church. If the Bible is the most-published book in ...

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ROME — In preparation for the Sunday of the Word of God Jan. 24, the Vatican issued recommendations for the day as well as reminders on respecting the sacred Scriptures. For example, liturgical books ...

In Hindu religion, there are so many holy scriptures and books and as we all know that this is the month of Shravan and people get into various religious and spiritual activities so reading sacred ...