In the story of the Good Samaritan, Jesus seems to come down on the side of the broadest possible application of the love ethic. And by emphasizing a particular type of love – the gut-wrenching kind – ...

As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense devotion between the warrior Jonathan and David, who later became king of Israel ...

reading 75% of the Bible in 34 weeks. It was daunting the first time through Leviticus, all the slaughter, blood, mold, and pus. But with a few good teachers, I learned about the concept of Jubilee.