Debbie Blue's new book "Consider the Birds" bills itself as a provocative guide to the Bible, and it certainly is that. What if, for example, the Isaiah translation that many of us are used to hearing ...

I’ve been engrossed in The Story of the Lost Child, the fourth in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels (Europa Editions). The series follows the friendship of Elena (the narrator) and Lila (her fiery ...

Debbie Blue, author and founding pastor of the House of Mercy in St. Paul, Minn., likes to help readers see the Bible in new ways. Her last book, From Stone to Living Word (Brazos Press), examined how ...

This is not a “best books” list because I cannot hope to read everything that crosses my desk; this is an impressionistic rendering of five wonderful books I did get to read this year, in no ...

Sometimes funny, frequently irreverent and consistently thoughtful, Debbie Blue, a founding pastor of the House of Mercy in St. Paul, Minnesota, presents a solid introduction to a method of reading ...

Debbie Blue, a Lutheran minister and one of the founders of House of Mercy in St. Paul, Minn., highlights what she calls “wild and provocative” women in the Bible—Hagar, Esther, and Mary, and explores ...