This Sunday, the readings highlight the Judeo-Christian wisdom tradition found in Scripture. Wisdom literature takes many forms in the Bible. One form is as a set of “sayings,” aphorisms and proverbs, ...

“Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.” Barbara Reid uses the invitation of Woman Wisdom in Proverbs 9.5–6 as a lens for accessing her feminist readings of Old and New Testament ...

Knowledge is power, and the instructions we find in the book of Proverbs allow us to live according to God’s plan, granting us wisdom. As believers, we all have access to this wisdom, but applying the ...

Recently the NPR program "Science Friday" featured a young biologist named Danielle Lee. In the course of talking about the excitement of her career, she commented that individual curiosity is the ...

(RNS) — Bible societies are attempting to understand why, in a time when 90% of the world’s population has access to the Christian sacred text, relatively few consider it a foundation of their lives. ...

Major decisions require wisdom beyond immediate desires and attractive options. Friends offer differing viewpoints, and fear can intensify decision-making pressures. Biblical guidance suggests asking ...

Last Sunday, we celebrated Pentecost which commemorates the coming of the Holy Spirit. The feast reminds us that God is ever-present in our lives, hopefully informing and inspiring our actions. This ...

The Bible teaches us that wisdom comes from above but it begins with the fear of the Lord, so here is the biblical definition of wisdom in the hopes that you might gain it. There is great wisdom in ...

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

One of the biggest ever research projects into scripture is looking into how people use the Bible and what it means to them—an attempt to understand why, in a time when 90 percent of the world’s ...