The Bible

The Bible insists we turn our pain into understanding, love and empathy.

Responses to an Opinion essay by José Andrés and news articles. Also: New York City’s mental health shelters; the eclipse; Donald Trump and the Bible.

Trump’s God Bless the USA Bible focuses on God’s blessing of one particular people. That is both its danger and, no doubt for some, its appeal.

It is fitting that the biggest movie in the world this year is the story of a messiah gone wrong.

Trump is, as the nuns who taught me used to say, “a bold, brazen piece.”

Responses to a front-page article. Also: The bridge collapse; Donald Trump and the $60 Bible; political qualifications; Flaco the owl.

La venta del libro, que combina religión y política, se da cuando el expresidente parece enfrentar a un gran aprieto financiero con el aumento de sus gastos por una serie de demandas y casos penales.

His Bible sales pitch comes as he appears to be confronting a significant financial squeeze, with his legal fees growing while he fights a number of criminal cases and lawsuits.

In “God’s Ghostwriters,” the historian Candida Moss explores the many people who penned the Scriptures.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson delivers a riveting interpretation of the Bible’s first book.