By adopting what he believed to be an Indigenous practice of extra-lethal violence, Kieft leveraged alliances with mercenary ...

Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt” (Exod. 22:21, KJV) is another ...

A group of abuse survivors, advocates, and pastors have called on a pair of Southern Baptist leaders to apologize for calling ...

In Mark 14, the scene is tense. Jesus stands before an assembly of the high priest, all the chief priests, the elders, and the scribes. False witnesses rise and tell tales meant to condemn Jesus, but ...

Amid the recent killings of two immigrants by immigration enforcement agents, around 100 religious leaders from across the ...

Because technology now allows medicine to “bring the nature and timing of death and dying under efficient and instrumental ...

One of Ukraine’s most controversial combat units, an elite special forces company named the Bratstvo Battalion, is also the country’s only exclusively Christian unit. While Ukraine was still refusing ...

There are many answers to this question, so using the term without explanation can be confusing—and ...

The boy was sediment—silt pressed into bone,layers beneath his own weight,each sense burieddeeper than sound could reach.In ...

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In one of John Updike’s novels, a minister finishes the last page of The Collected Works of Robert Ingersoll and, in less than the time it takes Updike to complete the sentence, loses his faith. This ...