After years of steady decline, Bible engagement in the United States has ticked upward for the first time in four years, driven largely by a surprising demographic: younger men.

In their book The Laughing Jesus, authors Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy expressed the belief that the Christian Bible evolved from other myths. “Each mystery religion,” they wrote, “taught its own ...

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Who Was the Good Samaritan? Jesus tells the parable, or story, of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10 of the New Testament. In that Bible chapter, he says, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho ...