Editor’s note: Columns in the Faith section reflect opinions and perspectives of the writer and are not necessarily those of The Republic. A friend recently asked me why God in the Old Testament (the ...

In this essay, I will examine the ways in which the Old Testament’s hope in God as Saviour comes to fulfillment in Jesus ...

As the class explored the stories of the fiery, intelligent, brave women of the Old Testament, I saw the hand of God in these stories of bold women and individuals on the margins.

For more than a month now, I’ve been leading the adult education class of my wee kirk in a long, careful reading through the Psalms, those ancient spiritual songs of the Hebrew people. Though we ...

First of all, the Old Testament God and the New Testament God are the same. God’s being and innate character and nature are unchangeable. “For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob ...

God promised Abraham many offspring. By human logic, that was incredible. But Abraham gave it credence. Yet Abraham and Sarah also decided to take matters into their own hands and “help God along” on ...

Meet the LDS couple working to teach kids (and adults) that scripture is more than a stack of doctrines and simple stories of ...

When the book of Malachi comes to an end, the curtain draws to a close on the Old Testament and God goes silent. There’s no word from God, there are no prophets from God, there are no scriptures ...

The Hebrew Scriptures place internal struggles on full display—and teach us a lot about spiritual practice. I had quiet times before I knew they were a requirement for Christian living, and during ...

In theory, I am committed to preaching the Old Testament. I generally feel exercised about how little the Old Testament is proclaimed in churches, how rarely it is preached, how many Christians act as ...

Join us for the next year as we make our way through the Old Testament. Despite the Second Vatican Council’s promotion of Scripture reading, many Catholics are still not as familiar with the Bible as ...