Editor’s Note: Laura Bernardini is director of coverage in CNN’s Washington, D.C. bureau. The views expressed in this column belong to Bernardini. But this Catholic hadn’t read it – at least, not from ...

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 ...

Genesis, Chapter 1 You’d think God would know exactly what He’s doing, but He doesn’t. He’s a tinkerer. He tries something out—what if I move all the water around so dry land can appear? He checks it ...

This is the first of a short “Genesis January” series helping people explore the complexity of the Bible at the start of a new year. My wife’s college roommate would sometimes tell people, “I’m a ...

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 ...