Kristin Swenson delivers this week's inspiration on the Spirituality page. May 14, 2010 — -- "There's a saying that you lose your faith by degrees -- bachelor's, master's and Ph.D," a friend of ...

Drawing upon the most recent scholarship concerning the origins, interpretation, and translation of the Bible, Swenson, a professor of religious studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and ...

"You say 'to-may-to,' I say 'to-mah-to,' you say 'po-tay-to,' I say 'po-tah-to.' But 'to-may-to,' 'to-mah-to,' 'po-tay-to,' 'po-tah-to,' let's call the whole thing off. You say 'Bible,' I say 'Bibble, ...

Many other examples are explored in the new book "Bible Babel: Making Sense Of The Most Talked About Book Of All Time." The book is by religious studies scholar Kristin Swenson.

The narrative told in Genesis 11:1–9 is said to be an origin myth to explain why the world's peoples speak different languages. According to the tale, a united human race inhabited the land of Shinar ...

Pope Francis is considering the idea of having women as deacons in the Catholic Church (Gazette-Times, May 13). From the article: “Deacons are ordained ministers but not priests, though they can ...

The Tower of Babel appears in the Bible's Book of Genesis and is often described as the world's very first skyscraper. As the story goes, sometimes after Noah's flood, a united force of humans began ...

IN the number of the Johns Hopkins University Circulars for June (vol. xxii. No. 163), Prof. Paul Haupt has published an article entitled “Bible and Babel,"referring to the somewhat heated controversy ...