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Swearing Oaths
January 25, 2021
Every four years the US president stands in front of the Capitol building and takes the oath of office, with the right hand raised and the left hand resting on a Bible. Although the Constitution doesn ...
Billy Graham and MLKÂ
January 18, 2021
In 1957, Billy Graham invited Martin Luther King Jr. to pray at his revival gathering in New York City. They were an unlikely pair: one was tall, gaunt, white; the other short, sturdy, black—two Bap ...
Erasmus and Luther
January 11, 2021
Sometimes two people respect and despise each other in equal measure. Two prominent men in the Reformation period had just such a complicated relationship. Luther once wrote of the scholar Erasmus, †...
New Year’s Resolutions
January 4, 2021
A New Year! And with it the annual New Year’s resolutions! That time of the year when we tell ourselves we’re going to make changes and self-improvements in the year ahead! Riiight! Well resolutio ...
The Doré Bible
December 28, 2020
The Bible in front of you is one of the most popular illustrated Bibles of all time. The illustrations are by Gustave Doré, a largely self-taught prodigy who began illustrating professionally at age ...
The Prayer Book for Charles V
December 21, 2020
If you were designing a prayer book for a teenage boy, what would you include? What if that boy was poised to become one of the most powerful people in the world? The prayer book of Charles V was cust ...
Early Jews in America
December 14, 2020
In 1655, a very special package arrived in New Amsterdam, the Dutch settlement that would later become New York City. Its arrival was a global occurrence. The package came from Amsterdam to a group of ...
What Did People Do for Fun?
December 7, 2020
Life in the first century was hard. The common people of Jesus’s day had to work long hours just to provide shelter and feed their families. But what did they do in their spare time? How did they en ...
Paris Pocket Bible
November 30, 2020
The Bibles you find at the bookstore today are not like the Bibles of ancient times. For one thing, there’s what you find inside the Bible—in ancient times, Bibles were copied by hand; there were ...
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