Bible sales have boomed in recent years. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Bob Smietana of Religion News Service about what's behind the trend.

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Books are wonderful. The U.S. Armed Services realized that in the 1940s. Books inform, entertain, distract and foster community. Molly Gupta Manning‘s “When Books Went to War: The Stories that Helped ...

Some texts were too mystical. Others too politically dangerous. And some simply gave voice to people the Church would rather have silenced. These are the books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

With its 100th birthday on the horizon, Route 66 will soon be in the spotlight again. Now, a new book chronicling the history of the famous road that runs from Chicago to the Los Angeles area adds to ...

If you could go back in time to travel Route 66 at any point in history, when would you make the trip? The question was pitched to Jim Ross and Shellee Graham, who are more qualified than most to ...

Some of the most famous and widely quoted verses in the Bible come from the book of Isaiah. But who was this biblical prophet? As a point of comparison, the book of Isaiah contains 66 chapters, ...

ARCADIA, Okla. (KFOR) — For Jim Ross and his wife Shellee Graham, just about every single journey on Route 66, for the past 30 years, has included an old stretch of original pavement near Arcadia.

Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...

If you relate to my question last week of “Why bother reading the Bible?” — then I hope you’ll jump in for a four-week overview of the 66 books in the testaments, both older and newer. Let’s begin at ...