About this site: Articles on reading the Bible, prayer and the life of faith, written by a writer with theological training and reviewed by a second theological reviewer. Scripture is quoted from the World English Bible (public domain); prayers and reflections are original. Devotional content, not affiliated with any denomination.
Bible Study
Starting at Genesis is the most common mistake. Here is a reading order that works, how much time to set aside, what to do with the hard passages and how not to stall in Leviticus.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
The Bible is not a dream dictionary and never assigns a fixed meaning to a dream symbol. Here is what it does contain: a handful of specific dreams, and an interpreter who says every time that the meaning is not his own.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
The whole of Psalm 91, block by block, in the public-domain World English Bible: who is speaking in each part, what the ancient dangers were, and the one thing the psalm never promises.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Moses appears in four books of the Bible, from a basket on the Nile to a grave nobody can find. Here is what the text says about him and what came from later tradition and art.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Fifteen Bible stories with a suggested age, the exact chapter where each one lives, and an honest note about the ones with a heavy part that children's material usually erases.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
The Bible in a year, the New Testament in 90 days, the Gospels and Psalms in 30: what each plan asks of you, how long it takes daily and the three reasons most people quit.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Eight verses, one repeated word and a walking pilgrim. Psalm 121 block by block in the World English Bible, with the travel dangers behind each line and what the psalm does not guarantee.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
David gets more chapters than almost anyone else in the Hebrew Bible: anointed as a boy, hunted as a fugitive, crowned, then exposed. Here is the whole arc and where to read it.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit appears in three Gospels and in one specific scene. Here is the literal text, what Mark 3:30 says the accusation was, and how each Christian tradition defines the sin today.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Spaced repetition, handwriting, first-letter drills and three more tested techniques for memorizing verses — and still remembering them months later.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
What Genesis 1 actually says, how to tell the six days at each age, and what to answer when your child asks about dinosaurs or about what the teacher said at school.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Read at weddings, written for a fight. All thirteen verses of 1 Corinthians 13 in context, with the fifteen things Paul says love does and the argument the chapter is actually settling.
Ruth Callaway ·