Ecclesiastes is one of my favorite books in the Bible. It’s a challenging book to process, and if you want to make sense of any one part of Ecclesiastes, you have to read that part in light of the ...

“Song of Solomon (Song of songs). Woodcut after a drawing by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (German painter, 1794 – 1872) ZU_09/Getty Images ו שִׂימֵנִי כַחוֹתָם עַל-לִבֶּךָ, כַּחוֹתָם עַל-זְרוֹעֶךָ ...

John Stewart is a former Tennessee Valley Authority executive and attends the Church of the Savior, United Church of Christ, in Knoxville. Those of us living in East Tennessee know that a lot of folks ...

A reader sent me a friendly note this week, chiding me for not writing more about the Bible and this article is the reply to that request. If asked what their favorite book of the Bible is, perhaps a ...

I have always wanted to see the look on Qoheleth’s face. An innovative thespian on a spiritual quest recently gave me that chance. A colleague from the theater department at my university had told me ...

Until his 70th birthday, Moriah had never been preoccupied with the passing of time or his own mortality. But as he entered his eighth decade, the Book of Ecclesiastes took on new meaning for him.

An overview of the historical background and theology of Ecclesiastes to help you develop your sermon series and apply it to your hearers. Traditionally, Ecclesiastes is understood to be authored by ...

How Ecclesiastes diagnoses our doomed quests for happiness. As a writer, David Foster Wallace is probably best known for his gargantuan novel Infinite Jest—the copiously footnoted book many fans have ...

In my first semester of college as a classics major, I translated from Latin the opening passage of the ancient book of Ecclesiastes. This wasn’t ever a book I came across in parochial school or ...