In Matthew’s gospel, Joseph presents us with a different vantage point. While Mary nurtured life toward its external revelation, Joseph is called as a father to witness something outside of himself ...
Some sages have argued that the blind patriarch Isaac was actually never deceived by Jacob. That seems like an intellectual ...
Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some ...
Education officials in Texas are expected to vote Friday on a new public school curriculum that would incorporate stories from the Bible into elementary school teachings.
The Midrash HaGadol has Laban’s birth aligned with those he would soon oppress. “Laban was born through the merit of the ...
The Texas State Board of Education has given initial approval to a Bible-infused curriculum that would be optional for public ...
Georges Lemaître, priest and physicist, shaped cosmology by uniting faith and science. Ignacio Núñez de Castro, SJ, ...
Texas education officials voted narrowly to offer preliminary approval on Tuesday for a new curriculum that includes Bible ...
Texas has been at the forefront of a movement among some Christian conservatives to promote religion in public schools, testing the boundaries of U.S. law and potentially inviting an increasingly righ ...
Weather is often autumn news. In a “Reader’s Digest” story, ferry passengers returned from Juneau, Alaska in the fall. A frustrated tourist asked a ...
The concept of a holy remnant, preserving society, is woven throughout the Old and New Testaments and supported by centuries ...
Yet there remains a unique charm to Genesis Phase One, where a very English sense of melancholy ... by nightmares his wife had while sleeping in “a purple room” and by the Bible’s book of Revelations, ...