The Book We No Longer Know

Biblical illiteracy is not merely a religious problem, it is a civilizational one, and the church must lead the way back.

There is a passage in the eighth chapter of Nehemiah that ought to haunt us. The people of Israel, newly returned from exile, gathered in the public square. Ezra the scribe brought out the Torah and read it aloud from morning until midday. The people stood and listened. They wept. They confessed. They celebrated. They were, in the truest sense, reconsti…