Both major parties leaned in to the Bible and Christianity at their recent conventions, but in very different ways.
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Several threads, including pre-Christian mythology, veneration of relics in Christian tradition, and medieval literature, have combined over the centuries into the Holy Grail metaphor of today.
State superintendent Ryan Walters has mandated that public school teachers incorporate the Bible into classroom lessons.
Discovered in Egypt in 1952, this 1700-year-old book stands as a key example of the birth of Christian literature and culture – including the rise of antisemitism.
A collection of manuscripts from ancient Egypt reveals the variety of early Christian scriptures before the consolidation of the Bible.
Events that the media describe as ‘apocalyptic’ reflect changing anxieties about the future.
The Book of Job and ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’ both make fun of preachy know-it-alls and resist conventions of their genres.
Reagan and Trump − two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents − used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
The ancient tenebrae tradition brings churchgoers face to face with the darkest moments of the Christian story.
For nearly 500 years, priests and imams justified slavery on the basis of a misunderstood passage of the Bible.
Given the dependence of Judaism, Christianity and even Islam on the Hebrew Bible, it is important to understand how the Bible depicts blood vengeance.
The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on how fragmented medical care can be. Relational, or person-centered, medicine is attempting to provide solutions.
The Bible remains the most important collection of books in Western civilisation. Regardless of our religious beliefs, it has shaped all of us. But who wrote it? The answer is complicated.
Through the power of rituals, inanimate objects can be understood to transform into agents who can see, hear, taste and respond to the concerns of those who worship them.
Faith communities can use their influence and large following to fight climate change.
Borman’s professionalism helped the risky Apollo 8 mission become a success.
A scholar of American religion explains how a new phenomenon of Jesus images on TikTok is tapping into the prosperity gospel, a Christian belief that God will reward faith with this-worldly comforts.
Advanced artificial intelligence is new, but a similar idea has been around for hundreds of years: the power of a just-right sequence of numbers, letters or elements to animate matter.
The ‘Shepherd of Hermas’ has been accused of being pedantic, even boring. In the first few centuries of Christianity, though, it was a hit.
Distinct from civil disobedience, this legal strategy demands complete compliance with the law – even when there are loopholes that the laws’ creators didn’t intend.
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Associate Professor, New Testament & Director of the Wesley Centre, University of Divinity
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Visiting Research Fellow University of Chester, University of Chester
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Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Associate Professor (New Testament Studies), University of Divinity
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Cadbury Professor of Theology, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Religious Studies, Michigan State University
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PhD Candidate in Biblical Studies and Queer Theory, University of Sheffield
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Assistant Professor of Intellectual Heritage, Temple University
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Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair of Law and Religion, Michigan State University
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Docteur ès sciences historiques et philologiques, maître de conférences HDR, membre honoraire de l’IUF, Université de Strasbourg
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Research Fellow in Digital Theology, Director of CODEC Research Centre, Durham University
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Professor of Sociology, Biola University
