At least a half-dozen Arkansans participated in this week's national scripture-reading marathon, which featured President Donald J. Trump and a variety of religious and political leaders, as well as celebrities and online influencers.

One day after he posted — then deleted — an image comparing himself to Jesus Christ, President Donald Trump sat at his desk in the Oval Office and read from the Bible directly to a camera.

*Pres. Donald Trump has been torched for using the Bible as a prop and for selling his own Bible, but he transcended negative attention and read scripture from the Oval Office as part of the “America Reads the Bible” event taking place this week.

The independent fundamentalist church I went to as a boy gave me a fantastic amount of Bible knowledge. There were Bible drills in Sunday School, Bible memory contests, and Bible quizzes, not to mention a complete grounding in all the characters and ...