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If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. Therefore an overseer must be above reproach.

In Acts 17, Paul encounters the intelligentsia of the first-century world. Paul’s engagement with the philosophers in Athens ...

It is also fascinating to see that Plato rsquo;s students classified some demons as the disembodied spirits of the dead. Many ...

What is the New King James Version of the Bible and how does it differ from others? Here is a brief explanation of several ...

Though there is no proper evidence about the inception of translation, there is one thing about which critics agree that it ...

After months of deliberation, David Sheldon Fearon wrote a letter in 1959 to the committee responsible for developing the ...

During the Roman era, Jewish philosopher Philo Judaeus (Philo of Alexandria) wrote on the matter that “those who forsake the ...

Botanists in Israel have cultivated a long-extinct plant that could be a biblical tree species by planting a 1,000-year-old ...

Archaeologists have discovered a rare artifact that is found throughout the Bible's Old Testament. They discovered a 3,800-year-old textile ... has held significant historical symbolism and importance ...

This article is part of a series of articles produced by local LGBTQ+ publications celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month. Philad ...

Anna Gazmarian's 'Devout' is an emotional, vulnerable portrait of a woman who was failed by two institutions, both science ...