The newly discovered sermons, which are being prepared for publication, explore the Old Testament story of King Saul and the witch of Endor, who summons the spirit of the prophet Samuel before Saul's ...

The medieval texts examine King Saul’s consultation with the medium of Endor and suggest that Israel’s first king may ...

An attorney for Danny Masterson — who is currently serving a 30-years-to-life prison sentence after he was convicted of ...

While this may seem like a distant thing to connect with your own church, the lessons here are shockingly relevant to all ...

For the director/artist, creating images inspired by Torah is a way of engaging with the stories, ideas and interpretations ...

Fueling the Republican Party's recent rise to power, locally and nationally, is a relatively small but devoted coalition: ...

This is allegory; it doesn’t read according to the plain sense of Jesus’ words. Augustine’s interpretation is dismissed ...

The latest issue of Donne Chiesa Mondo, the monthly supplement of L’Osservatore Romano, has sparked fresh controversy over its treatment of the figure of the devil. Under the title “The Devil in Us”, ...

But things aren’t much better at the bipartisan, congressionally sponsored 250 th commission, a body that was created in 2016 to oversee this year’s commemorations, but which had much of its funding ...

First Baptist Church of Gainesville has left two Baptist organizations over a ban on female pastors. The Southern Baptist Convention approved a constitutional amendment banning women from serving as ...

Previously, when I read the passage about the "12 spies" in the Book of Numbers, I could only understand it as "Caleb and Joshua = heroes of faith" and "the 10 spies = people without faith." I suspect ...