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In His StepsJanuary 30, 2023In the middle of a church service in the late 1800s, a suffering vagrant stumbled up near the pulpit and pleaded with the congregation. “How can you claim to follow a man who served the destitute wh ...
Galileo and the BibleJanuary 23, 2023Galileo is often associated with conflict between faith and science. The true story is both more complicated and more interesting. One of the true turning points in the history of science occurred 22 ...
The Bible MisquotedJanuary 9, 2023“Elementary, my dear Watson.” When hearing these words, most of us think we’re hearing a quote from Sherlock Holmes. However, what most people don’t know is that Sherlock Holmes never says tho ...
Burying the BibleDecember 19, 2022Given the abundance of Bibles available today, it’s easy to forget the times and places where the Bible was rare or even dangerous to possess. Joseph Severn’s painting,Burying the Bible, portrays ...
My Kingdom for a BibleDecember 12, 2022Theater-goers cannot avoid the language of the Bible in Shakespeare’s plays. Scattered across his more than thirty plays are over one thousand biblical allusions. In the comedyAs You Like It, the ch ...
Van Gogh Student of the BibleDecember 5, 2022There’s perhaps no greater tragic figure in the world of art than Vincent van Gogh. Afflicted with mental illness, he took his own life at age 37. But did you know that van Gogh was a serious studen ...
Book of KellsNovember 14, 2022Every year half a million visitors flock to Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, to see one very special Bible manuscript . . . the Book of Kells. Among the 680 gorgeously decorated pages of the Book o ...
Dressing the TorahOctober 31, 2022When the Romans destroyed the Second Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70, it might have seemed the Jewish people were lost. Without that central institution, where would they worship? How would they worship? ...
The Samaritans TodayOctober 24, 2022Many people know the term Samaritan from the New Testament parable of the good Samaritan. But did you know there are Samaritans still alive today? A small community of hundreds of Samaritans still end ...
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