Ann Naffziger is a scripture instructor and spiritual director in the San Francisco Bay area. She has has written articles on spirituality and theology for various national magazines and edited several books on the Hebrew Scriptures.

Who Were the Magi?

Let me begin by stating who the “magi” were not, at least according to Scripture. There is no evidence in Matthew’s Gospel (the only one…

What’s the Apocrypha?

What’s the Apocrypha and why is it part of some Bibles and not others? The Apocrypha is the set of 15 books generally placed between…