Bible Study
Prayers for children: bedtime, mealtime, and for fear
Short prayers in plain language for the three moments children pray most, with the Bible text behind each one and what to say when a prayer is not answered.
Ruth Callaway ·
Topic
Bible Study
Guides to reading and understanding the Bible: where to start, reading plans, the context of each book and how to memorize verses.
Bible Study
Old and New Testament: the difference and how they connect
Thirty-nine books and twenty-seven, written centuries apart in different languages — what separates them, why the book lists differ between churches, and the four threads that tie them together.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Who wrote the Bible, when, and how did it become one book?
The Bible names some of its writers, leaves others anonymous, and mentions two secretaries by name. Here is what the text says about its own production, and how sixty-six or more scrolls became a single volume.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
The meaning of Bible names: 40 names and where they come from
Forty biblical names with their Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek form, what each one means, and where the Bible itself explains a name. Disputed etymologies are marked as disputed.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
The literary genres of the Bible and why genre changes everything
A psalm, a proverb, a law, a letter and an apocalypse make different kinds of claim. What each genre in the Bible is doing, the mistake each one invites, and how to tell them apart on sight.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
How to teach the Bible to kids: what works at each age
Attention span, kind of story, what a child can already understand and what she cannot yet: an age-by-age guide for parents, catechists and Sunday school teachers.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Why does the Catholic Bible have 73 books and the Protestant 66?
Seven books and some passages separate the two canons. The difference is older than the Reformation, involves a Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures, and the Orthodox churches count differently again.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Bible translations compared: why the verses change
Two translations of the same verse can differ over the manuscript behind them, an idiom that does not survive, or a choice the receiving language forces. Here is what happens underneath.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Bible names for babies: meaning and where each one appears
Biblical names for boys and girls with the original form, the meaning, and the chapter where the person appears — plus the names people assume are biblical and are not.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
What the Bible says about tattoos, and Leviticus 19:28
One verse in the whole Bible mentions tattooing, and it sits inside a list of mourning practices — directly after a rule about haircuts and beards that almost nobody quotes alongside it.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Bible activities for kids: 12 ideas with no special supplies
Twelve activities that use only what is already in the house or the classroom: paper, pencils, the body and the voice. With the age, the text and the time each one takes.
Ruth Callaway ·
Bible Study
Bible reading plans: one year, 90 days or chronological
Six specific plans with the arithmetic behind each one — chapters a day, minutes a day, where each plan breaks — and the five rules that decide whether you are still reading in March.
Ruth Callaway ·