In our ASL translation, Jacob, who was hairless and smooth-skinned, has a name sign that can be back-translated literally to English as “smooth arm skin,” whereas his twin, Esau, who was notoriously ...

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With phrases like “an eye for an eye” and “thou shalt not kill” embedded in our language and over five billion copies sold worldwide (swollen by a further 100 million every year given away for free ..

Is He really a "Good, Good Father," and how do we know He is? What is our way to measure His goodness? To what do we compare His goodness?

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For more on Joshua’s faith and leadership, see Volume 89. Then, recently in 249, we discussed Joshua’s most famous verse: “As ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a ...

The Old Testament books are grouped in the following ... The chapter division, as found in the Bible today, dates from the thirteenth century and is the work of Stephen Langton, professor at ...

Psychologists have explored the connections between free will beliefs—often gauged by agreement with statements like “I am in charge of my actions even when my life’s circumstances are ...

Donald Trump will take the oath of office Monday, solidifying a political comeback without precedent in American history.

Many Republican state officials aligned with Trump's policies, while some Democratic state officials are mounting a ...