Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill launches his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, starting from the ...

In the New Testament, God as the “Rock” is further developed, representing the person of Jesus Christ and the foundation of the Church. Recorded in the Gospels of Matthew 7:24–27 and Luke 6: ...

The word Israel in Hebrew is יִשְׂרָאֵל. It is formed from its root which has a meaning which most scholars think conveys the idea of struggling, wrestling or fighting (whether literally or ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

I believe in miracles too, in my way, reconciling rationalism and inklings of a preternatural reality by means of “radical ...

If someone is walking in faith, fully accountable to a worshiping community, are they likely to get more out of the Bible than someone just reading for themselves? Certainly, and there’s texts to ...

The New Testament is an account of the pact between ... the terms "Old" and "New" Testaments also designate the sacred books of each.

The Lord doesn’t just want to turn a page on our lives. He wants to start writing a new book in us. I like how James Banks, a ...

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Then, in the book of Numbers, there is a “rockier ... and we see his influence on future Old Testament writers. Then, because the New Testament fulfills the Old, Moses’s rock-related ...

Julie Faith Parker is a Hebrew scholar who teaches biblical studies at General Theological Seminary in New York, and Eve ...