Among most Christians the Old Testament is little read in comparison to the New Testament. Furthermore, much of what is read is often distorted by prejudice. Frequently the Old Testament is believed to express exclusively the principles of justice and revenge, in contrast to the New Testament, which represents those of love and mercy; even the sentence, 'Love your neighbor as yourself,' is thought by many to derive from the New, not the Old Testament. Or the Old Testament is believed to have been written exclusively in the spirit of narrow nationalism and to contain nothing of supranational universalism so characteristic of the New Testament.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great…

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the princi…

It is often said that the Arabs fled, that they left the country voluntarily, and that they therefore bear the responsibility for losing their property and the…

Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.

The New Testament is an invaluable book, though I confess to having been slightly prejudiced against it in my very early days by the church and the Sabbath sch…

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.