As pagans barricade the ancient temple, defending it with stones and clubs, tensions rise. The conflict began when Bishop Theophilus exposed a secret pagan temple, inciting fury among the pagans who ...

Republicans in the Texas Senate introduced a bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools ...

The Decalogue, which most people mistakenly call “The Ten Commandments,” is contained in the fifth Exodus biblical portion, Yitro, which Moses repeats with many changes in the fifth chapter of ...

Republican Texas lawmakers are renewing a push to infuse a greater religious influence in the state's public schools with a ...

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of ...

The word 'church' in common language has many meanings depending on the context. This is the story ...

Per ardua ad astra, through adversity Jews reach the stars, and with luck often Venus, although Mars is thought by the ...

He was a warrior so large that his name is now a byword for immense size. But just how big was Goliath the biblical giant in ...

In 2007, Time magazine asserted that the Bible “has done more to shape literature, history, entertainment, and culture than any book ever written.” With phrases like “an eye for an eye” and “thou ...

Peter, also known as Simon, Simon Peter, Simeon, or Cephas, was a fisherman by trade and one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He's known for walking on water briefly before starting to go under — and ...

I grew up with the King James Bible, memorizing verses with ye and thou. Although my mom read to my siblings and me from Our Home Bible Story Book given to us by our neighbors in Indiana. In ...