In one school district, the Bible and the Book of Mormon were flagged for “sensitive materials review.” By Jacey Fortin Public schools are closed for the summer in Utah, leaving their libraries ...

The Utah school district that just banned the Bible in elementary and middle schools received a new request Friday targeting another religious text: the Book of Mormon. A spokesperson for Davis School ...

Jude has strong words for immorality in the church. Yet he advocates for mercy for those who doubt. In this Close Reading series, biblical scholars reflect on a passage in their area of expertise that ...

Frustrated with book challenges and bans in their school district, a parent in Utah decided to submit a complaint of their own — about the Bible. The Davis School District took the parent's objection ...

Amid all the damage Martin Luther did in rending the body of Christ, perhaps his most deeply ingrained legacy is his shortened canon of Scriptures. Many people seem to believe Catholics “added” books ...

The cryptic Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible deliberately uses the language and verbal elements seen in Roman curse tablets, probably in an effort to reinforce its message, one researcher ...

An unlikely book has been caught in the crosshairs of mass book removal by districts recently, one that is contrary to a Republican-led attempt toward censorship that frequently draws on Christian ...

AGENERATION ago, Professor Friedrich Delitzsch in his lectures on “Babel und Bibel” let loose a slue of characteristic Teutonic anti-Semitism under the guise of Assyriologic scholarship. A few ...

From a talking donkey to a man being eaten by a giant fish, the Bible has no shortage of strange stories. In her new book "A Most Peculiar Book: The Inherent Strangeness of the Bible" (Oxford ...

In the Jewish calendar, the holiest day of the year is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement—Oct. 2 this year. It is a fast day. Observant Jews eat and drink nothing between twilight on the eve of Yom ...