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 ...

What is there still to say about a text that is thousands of years old and has been translated into over 700 languages? That has been painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carved in marble, ...

Virginia nursing home resident Nancy Macy had already read the Bible in its entirety three times, but she’d sent her well-worn King James home with family and thought she might not spend time with it ...

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 ...

This is the first of a short “Genesis January” series helping people explore the complexity of the Bible at the start of a new year. My wife’s college roommate would sometimes tell people, “I’m a ...

Early in her brand-new nonfiction book Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson points out that when Adam and Eve fell, God did not curse them. Yes, God cursed the ground, but he did not curse his human ...

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 ...