There was a hymn we used to sing when I was a child, one of those lusty, murderous chants characteristic of the Anglican Church in its high-Victorian pomp. Written in 1894, it vibrates with imperial ...

Hailing from northern Idaho – the American frontier – Marilynne Robinson is among our most revered living novelists. Her debut, Housekeeping (1980), received critical acclaim, but it was the Pulitzer ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marilynne Robinson is admired in Britain by those who appreciate her sparsely but beautifully written novels ...

The Christian story of creation is found in Genesis, the first book of the Bible close BibleThe Bible is the Christian holy book.. The book of Genesis begins by saying, “In the beginning God created ...

When people complain about reading the Bible, they often point to the “begots.” “This one begot that one, and that one begot this one.” The “begots” are worth a close reading, especially the first set ...

The Christian faith teaches that God created the world and everything in it. This information is found in the first book of the Old Testament, Genesis, which states: In the beginning God created the ...

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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 ...