With the U.S. being a separate church and state type country, people get a little testy about the idea of teaching the Bible in public school. How could you possibly think of doing such a thing? Don’t you know there’s no proselytizing in schools?
But we do teach literature. A lot of it. How can we [...]

GeekWire reports about an ex-Google engineer’s vision to merge the Bible with social media in his website ooBible.
“We wanted a clean, simple interface, something that people can come in, and really just focus on the words,” Wong tells GeekWire. “We wanted to create an experience that mimics physical books, so you can [...]

An interesting intersection of science and faith. The Associated Press reports on a new Israeli software which is “giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible.”
The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different [...]

Plans are in the works to film a major Hollywood epic on the biblical story of Noah. Deadline New York reports Paramount is nearing signing onto the big ticket picture Noah written and to be directed by Darren Aronofsky, director of Black Swan.
The film will cost well more than the ark cost Noah to build:
Noah [...]

If any of you make it to South Africa this summer (or should I say “winter”), the National Library is hosting an exhibition marking the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible - which is this year. Not only is the KJB the most printed book in history, it was also the first book read [...]

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports what happened when a church rector challenged his congregation to read the Bible cover to cover in one year.
It may be the best-selling book of all time, but its battles, bloodletting, and “begats,” its many laws, rituals, and tribes, and those chewy names like Oholiab and Eliphelehu and “Joshbekashah [...]

Continuing our debate, Baptist Press reports on a meeting of Southern Baptist leaders last month to discuss the Bible’s response to wealth and poverty. One of the items on the agenda: does the Bible support capitalism?
Jay Richards, senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and author of “Money, Greed and God: Why Capitalism is the [...]

Continuing our discussion of Joseph and the financial lessons in his story: the Divine plan behind Joseph’s sale to the Ishmaelites and his ultimately landing in Pharaoh’s court is stated clearly in Genesis 50 as was foreshadowed a few chapters earlier.
After their father, Jacob-Israel dies, Joseph tells his brothers, “you meant [...]

Lake Lambert, author of the book, Spirituality, Inc., speaks to BiblEconomy about the growing trend to bring spirituality into the workplace. The professor of religion shares his favorite economic lessons from the Bible. Who is the model of a visionary and gifted manager? Do the Bible’s teachings encourage capitalism or socialism?
What did you [...]

In Hebrew, the last letter of the Torah is Lamed which appears in the last sentence of the last chapter of Deuteronomy in the last letter of the word “Israel.” Deuteronomy 34:12: “and for all the mighty deeds and all the terrifying displays of power that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.”
Turn to [...]