READING GENESIS. By Marilynne Robinson. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 352 pp., $29. Hamilton Cain is a book critic and the author of a memoir, “This Boy’s Faith: Notes From a Southern Baptist ...

S oftware developers sometimes encounter a “bug” in a computer program. Not wanting to spend the effort to try to fix the bug ...

I am not alone in this. As Dennis Olson noted in a 1990 article in the Journal for Preachers, many clergy steer away from Old Testament preaching, for a number of reasons—ministers doubt their ...

It is natural for most of us to feel a strangeness, reading Genesis, because we come to this story as outsiders who have been invited in. We are, as the apostle Paul said, grafted in through Jesus ...

Strawn analyzed 879 sermons published in collections called “Best Sermons,” and found that only 21 percent of those sermons were devoted to lessons from the Old Testament.

OLD TESTAMENT & ART: As Genesis ends with Joseph welcoming his family to Egypt, both Scripture and art point to a deeper truth: the path to redemption often begins in exile.

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have used a new digital reconstruction technique to resurrect one of the earliest known versions of the Old Testament from a Hebrew scroll that was burned ...