A new handwritten Bible
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Have a few thousand dollars to spend? Then, you might want to buy a handwritten Bible.
Who were the prophets?
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The art of prophecy is very difficult," Mark Twain once said, "especially with respect to the future." Surprisingly, Twain's words pretty much describe biblical prophecy.
Be here now: The benefits of living in the present
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There's no time like the present for living in God's presence.
What future did Paul see for his letters?
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For most of the year Christians hear a part of a letter of St. Paul read during Sunday worship. But if you had stopped Paul on the street in some place like Corinth and asked him if he thought his letters would become a permanent part of Christian liturgy and that his faith would make him the father of Christian theology, he probably would have laughed at you, in between dodging stones.
Are the gospels historical?
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People today tend to think that history is pretty much about facts. Though history is always interpreted, the aim of history is to uncover facts to paint a picture of the past as it more or less happened. So to ask if the gospels are historical is the same as asking, "Did things really happen that way?"
A really old new-fangled Bible
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I've written a number of posts about the various new ways we come up with presenting the Bible: magazines, coffee table books, websites, and so on. But none of these impress me more than the website for the Codex Sinaiticus, one of the oldest Bible known to man.
Digital Bibles: The Good...Flash Drive?
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The Good Book is now not only a book, but a flash drive. Just stick the “God on the Go” flash drive into a USB port and you can access the entire Bible from your computer.
Publisher ACTA emphasizes that it’s more convenient—and green—than carrying around the Good Book. Also, scripture takes up only 10 percent of the space, so you can use the flash drive as a memory stick for your own documents.
Will the real Jesus please stand up?: An interview with Daniel Harrington, S.J.
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Yes, the gospels present four different portraits of Jesus. That's the whole point.
Like many Catholics of their generation, Daniel Harrington's family wasn't made up of Bible readers. Harrington recalls two Protestants coming to his house when he was a child. "We'd like to discuss the Bible," they said, to which his mother replied, "We're Catholics. We don't read the Bible."
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Advising Pope Francis on the challenges ahead
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