The Bible has long been a source of spiritual guidance, historical insight, and literary fascination. Scholars have explored countless influences that may have shaped its stories, and one intriguing ...

Last time in this space, I wrote a little piece on the ways in which the various Protestantisms filter the sometimes ambiguous text of Scripture through various semi-permeable membranes in order to ...

Three blocks from Smithsonian exhibits depicting the Big Bang and evolution, Washington’s newest museum will tell a different story of the creation of the universe. The Museum of the Bible will ...

Howard Schwartz grew up devouring the myths of quarreling Roman gods and towering Greek Cyclopes, and as an adult he kept asking the question he first posed to his teachers as a young boy: Is there ...