The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled ...

COMMENTARY: Marking the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the Pope contrasts orthodox faith with the claims of ...

Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million.

For many Christians today, the Bible is one of those very few permanencies in the world. It connects them to a world ...

Yes. From a Bahá’í perspective, interfaith marriage can work beautifully without either partner converting, provided there ...

A Catholic priest I knew once joked that Anglicans are just dressing up as Catholics but with bad theology. According to a ...

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...

What is little known though, is that across every continent and every epoch this same forbidden technique appears under different names: Ba-flight in Egypt, pneuma-ekstasis in Greece, shen-you in ...

In the earlier part of this series, I looked at Western responses to Israel through various theological lenses—premillennial, ...

Book review by Dr Anne Sarzin A tiny golden bell with a clasp attached has brought the sounds and sights of the High Priest’s ...

The family of Mattathias became known as the Maccabees, from the Hebrew word for “hammer,” because they were said to strike hammer blows against their enemies. The name Hasmoneans refers to the ...

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight ...