Perhaps the best known Bible story that refers to Baal is in the 18th chapter of I Kings, where the prophet Elijah publicly challenges the priests of Baal to a contest. Both the prophet and the ...

How does History move? A generation ago, in the Nineties, it seemed to have forgotten how: perhaps, as Elijah mocked the prophets of Baal, History was on a journey, or… ...

Even after winning a contest of who was real between the prophets of Baal and his God, Elijah still ran away from Jezebel into the wilderness, because she threatened to have him killed like the ...