Jewish and Christian leaders have prayed this “Priestly Blessing” over their congregations for centuries. However, this ...
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king’” (Joshua 8:1–2). The book of Revelation describes the moment at the end of the Tribulation when Jesus Himself will ...
Biblical scholar John Bergsma tells the Register, ‘the Church to this day is still about the ministry of Jubilee.’ ...
In the late 2000s, the filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer trained his camera ... the future of critical theory, and his recent book, A Precarious Happiness. In James Mangold's film A Complete Unknown ...
In it, Mary, the mother of Jesus, sings, “My soul magnifies the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior; for he has ...
Wright, the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England, is Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford. His book Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political witness in an Age of ...
Jimmy Carter was celebrated Thursday for his personal humility and public service before, during and after his presidency during a funeral at Washington National Cathedral featuring the kind of ...
“A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” Isn’t a Feel-Good New York Story Memorialized as the quintessential Brooklyn novel, it is really a book about leaving the borough—and escaping the poverty and ...
Father Petro Balogh recalls the later books of the Old Testament, and especially in the New Testament, where personal faithfulness and holiness do not necessarily guarantee deliverance from earthly ...
This is the introduction from noted scholar Hershel Shanks' book (Random House April 1998 ... They date to the time of Jesus and shortly before. Between the early I950's and 1956, archaeologists ...
248 A.D. "The whole canon of the Scriptures, however, in which we say that consideration is to be applied, is contained in these books: the five of Moses . . . and one book of Joshua [Son of] Nave ...
Others imagine the onslaught of Greco-Roman culture molding Jesus into a less Jewish, more cosmopolitan champion of social justice. In 1991 John Dominic Crossan published a bombshell of a book ...