It is a bright, cold Holy Thursday morning, and I am standing outside an immigration detention center that is creepily located in a suburban office park in Cary, North Carolina. Unmarked white vans ...

Pastor and artist Joseph Novak talks text and symbol. For millennia, biblical literature has shaped imagination and culture. "The Minimum Bible," a project from pastor and artist Joseph Novak ...

The podcaster offers a puzzling exegesis whose purpose he won’t or can’t explain.

In my previous two installments on this site I have examined what we can ascertain about the “wise men” or Magi, and what astronomy tells us about conjunctions (planetary alignments, as viewed from ...

Exegesis is a term often reserved for the meticulous study of religious or philosophical texts, involving a deep exploration of language, context, and layered meanings. In its traditional sense, ...