People in Abrahamic religions switch their birth religions for many different reasons. Eighteen months after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 2023, 31 percent of Jews say they’ve become more ...

This Yom Ha’atzmaut, we rededicate ourselves to the enduring bond between American Jewry and the State of Israel—and to the ...

St. Peter warns that Scripture can be distorted — and that Christians need more than personal interpretation to guard the ...

God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days ...

In the “sacramental shame” dynamic, churches require LGBTQ+ people to feel and display shame as the sign that they have not rejected God. Their churches, families and friends more or less require them ...

You’ll be relieved to know that ChatGPT said no. “That’s a deep and honest question”, it told me. “The answer really depends ...

The community is invited to participate in a three-day public reading of the Bible beginning April 30, the National Day of ...

Cough, cough, sneeze, blow, sneeze, cough. For four days this past week, that was my reality. All day long. My nose was raw, ...

A History of Sex and Christianity —the kind of hefty tome inevitably described as “magisterial” by reviewers—teems with ...

We begin with the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. It only took until the fourth verse of Genesis for God to introduce the concept ...

Clockwise from left: Will Bagley, Cathy Reed-Collins (shown with her pastor, Father Timothy Sauppé), and Anna and Dylan ...

This essay is the second in a series on hermeneutics or biblical interpretation, as part of a broader examination of how the majority Christian position has often been incorrect when critically ...