This piece begins a four‑part series exploring the story of Genesis 16 and what it reveals about God and the human heart.

No matter which interpretation of the Genesis week you hold to, I think we can all embrace what Francis Schaeffer wrote in his book The God Who is There about the core truths communicated by the Bible ...

Early in her brand-new nonfiction book Reading Genesis, Marilynne Robinson points out that when Adam and Eve fell, God did not curse them. Yes, God cursed the ground, but he did not curse his human ...

You may not realize how the first nine chapters of Genesis might affect your well-being. It is quite popular to scoff at the simple belief that the first chapters of the first book of the Bible ...

"Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight, and the earth was filled with violence" (Genesis 6:11). This passage comes from the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible. Genesis includes, among ...

Unperturbed by debates over the book’s relationship to modern thought, she helps us appreciate its marriage of literary structure and theological claims. In her latest book, Reading Genesis, Marilynne ...

What is there still to say about a text that is thousands of years old and has been translated into over 700 languages? That has been painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carved in marble, ...

In the first book in the Bible, Genesis, God told Abram to go “To a land that I will show you. I will make you a great nation, bless you and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing. I will ...

Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting local journalism. Fifty years ago, three Black Latter-day Saint men knelt in a university ...