Scripture is already all around you.
A line from a film, a figure in a painting, an ancient city, a verse that changed a life. Four editorial series on how Scripture lives inside today's culture.
In Film
Behind unforgettable scenes lies a single verse. Read side by side with the original.
Read the seriesIn Art
Biblical sentences hiding inside centuries-old masterpieces, opened one canvas at a time.
Read the seriesPlaces
Cities still called by the same names after 3,000 years — located on today's map.
Read the seriesIn Music
Hymns, pop lyrics, classical works. Behind the melodies that moved generations — a single verse uncovered.
Read the seriesIn Literature
Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Melville. Trace the biblical sentences hidden in the pages of literature's greatest novels.
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Steinbeck's whole novel rests on one Hebrew word. The Bibles do not agree on how to render it.
A promise, an order, or a choice. Genesis 4:7 ends in a verb that can be read all three ways — and the seven Bibles quoted on this site do not read it the same.
U2 left the stage one by one. The crowd kept singing — which is what a psalm is for.
The band leaves the stage one by one. The crowd keeps singing. Psalm 40 was always written for the voices that continue after the singer stops.
The city the Bible argues with most — Babylon.
Tower of Babel. 70-year exile. Daniel's lions. The Hanging Gardens. The verse named the city in Genesis 11. 4,000 years later, archaeologists are still excavating.
The city that named the religion — Antioch.
Two billion people now answer to a label first applied in this city. Read Acts 11:26 — the verse names the place. The modern earthquake of 2023 has reshaped what's left.