David Plotz was online at Washingtonpost.com to chat with readers about his new book, Good Book, about his year spent reading the Bible and blogging about it. An unedited transcript of chat follows.

We should read it not as an assortment of poems and songs but as a single rhapsody on God’s covenant promises. Late in the fourth century, a man named Palladius of Galatia left his home (somewhere in ...

Pope Benedict XVI read a passage from the start of the Book of Genesis on Italian TV today. The Pope’s reading was the first segment of a week-long, round-the-clock Bible-reading marathon on Italy’s ...

With Millennials and Generation Z leading the way, particularly among men, Bible reading among U.S. adults in 2025 is at its highest level in the last 15 years, according to new data from the "State ...

Considering how often the Bible is characterized as a great work of literature, it is rarely read like one. Few would suggest a piecemeal approach to Crime and Punishment, jumping from chapter to ...

The caricature of Rahab and other female characters in Scripture often sidelines their contribution. Several years ago, I was invited to write the notes for a new women’s study Bible. The project was ...

A Latter-day Saint friend of mine once invited an evangelical coworker to church. The coworker found much that was familiar in the LDS service: hymn singing, an informal sermon style, robust ...

It’s apparently okay to read history books at Northern Arizona University, but not the Good Book. Mark Holden, a 22-year-old history major, tells me he was ordered to leave a lecture hall after his ...