Unperturbed by debates over the book’s relationship to modern thought, she helps us appreciate its marriage of literary structure and theological claims. In her latest book, Reading Genesis, Marilynne ...

Considering how often the Bible is characterized as a great work of literature, it is rarely read like one. Few would suggest a piecemeal approach to Crime and Punishment, jumping from chapter to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marilynne Robinson is admired in Britain by those who appreciate her sparsely but beautifully written novels ...

In the beginning, the Rev. Jim Wehner began reading aloud from the Bible on Notre Dame Seminary's front lawn. As cars rumbled by on South Carrollton Avenue, the rector of the seminary tackled the ...

Who doesn’t love Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead—or even more, her first novel, Housekeeping? Yet better than her fiction, for my tastes, are her brilliant essays, which reveal that she should be ranked ...

College of the Ozarks will be part of a national cover-to-cover Bible-reading event just before the 250th birthday of the United States.

Ronald Osborn launches an assault on overly literal understandings of the creation story. As a boy Ronald Osborn took camping trips to the Mana Pools, in Zimbabwe, with his missionary parents. There ...

The first book of the Bible is Genesis. Written by Moses, and part of the Torah, Genesis 1 describes how the Universe was created. There are several theories about how the Universe was created. As you ...