Conventional learned commentaries on the first book of the Bible often concentrate on the reconstructed history of the traditions ... Marilynne Robinson’s meditation on Genesis takes us to another ...

More than that, I was exhausted by the constant criticism, anger, and cruelty all around me online. I was too tired to muster ...

Satan made his first sales pitch in Genesis 3 and has been trying to gain control over people ever since. Sometimes he wins, ...

we inhale a sweet and pleasant fragrance from herbs and flowers,” he writes in his Commentary on Genesis. Calvin says that Moses—traditionally understood to be the author of the Bible’s first five ...

The New Testament is full of tense exchanges between Jesus and the Pharisees, who often tried to trip him up in legalistic ...

OPINION: In 2020, seven years after I stopped speaking with my 81-year-old father, I decided to forgive him. I was about to ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

The outspoken and sometimes outrageous daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, said, “If you can’t say something good about someone, ...

Tens of thousands of evangelical Christians gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to pray for America’s ...

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He examines the Torah text from Jewish and non-Jewish sources. He follows the rational view that Maimonides (1138-1204) ...

Eight Holocaust survivors gathered in Toronto on Monday afternoon to restore a Torah scroll that was hidden in a Polish ...