The Lord is like my probation officer. He will help me. He tries to help me make it every day. He makes me play it cool. So begins the 23rd Psalm, as revised by an eleven-year-old delinquent boy at ...

In response to Mark Wolfson’s Monday letter to the editor in which he identifies the Bible as a book of parables: He’s correct. Jesus often communicated spiritual principles to his listeners by use of ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio (AP) — A suburban Cleveland pastor is challenging church members to create their own stimulus funding by putting a biblical parable into practice. The Rev. John Lentz of Forest ...

The man who passed by the injured person on the road to Jericho was emotionally impaired. The prodigal son becomes the negative attention-getting son. And the foolish bridesmaids who were unprepared ...

Proper application of the rules or principles of biblical interpretation helps us to explain the Bible without reading our thoughts, innuendos or biases into the ...

The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings ...