When you want to understand the Bible well, context is vitally important. Normally, any problem in understanding a single verse is solved by reading the whole chapter, the chapter before and the ...

A historian of the Bible in American life explains how Bible verses are being picked out of context to make a case for the anti-vaxxer movement. (The Conversation) — A devout evangelical ...

Oprah, perhaps knowing his background, asked him what his favorite verse was ... the context of their quasi-theological discussion. When Oprah shared her favorite Bible verse with him, Colbert ...

In reply to John Mallo’s challenge to Christian morality (Letters, Aug. 2 issue), his discussion on the matter is devoid of proper understanding of the Bible. Quoting verses out of context is a ...

The White House used a passage from the Bible ... Christian context of the Pauline early church. Writer and theologian Diana Butler Bass provided a comprehensive overview of the verse’s original ...

We searched Facebook for the same Bible verse and found a seemingly endless ... A "Learn More" button on the label added the context from Facebook and Meta. It read as follows: This photo doesn ...

The full context of that verse is seen in Jeremiah 7:5-8 (KJV). In the Bible, widows were sometimes neglected by their own families, so the families needed to be reminded to do their moral duty.

The line’s context ... The verse, from Proverbs 22:4, is not especially well-known, and Carson’s use of it seems pretty accurate. Contrast that with Trump’s attempt to invent a Bible ...

All of these verses have been lifted out of context and repurposed to buttress the anti-vaccine movement. As a historian of the Bible in American life, I can attest that such shallow reading in ...