Abraham’s allies Aner, Eshkol and Mamre guarded the baggage while Abraham’s own servants went into battle. Yet Abraham insists they receive their share of the spoils. David, too, returns to find that ...

A family dispute over an inheritance can be won on paper and still cost a brother for twenty years. Being correct rarely heals anything on its own.

Esther asks tough questions, offers no easy answers, and remains more vital than ever as Americans go to the polls.

“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my ...

Prologue of the Gospel of St. John from the Clementine Vulgate. (photo: Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) The Vulgate historically has been an extraordinarily influential ...

William Holman Hunt, “The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple,” 1854 (photo: Public Domain) ROSARY & ART: In the Fifth ...

The more you read biblical food laws, the more they sound like someone made a very detailed flowchart and then lost the ...

Elon Gilad’s journey into Hebrew etymology began with a decrepit apartment, a Tel Aviv Street sign and an eggplant. The ...

The key issue was whom the Israelites "served" (verse 7; or "worshiped" NRSV). The Hebrew verb so translated (’abad) forms an ...

Science and Scripture offer very different ways of talking about beginnings. The real question may be less about choosing one ...

Last week in Vol. 340, we discussed the fulfillment of God’s promise as recorded by the apostle John: “ The true light, which ...

Today, some Christians reject the very idea of preaching. This tendency was also seen in the Emergent Church movement, which ...