The scent of herbs and flowers filled St. Elias the Prophet Orthodox Church on Saturday morning as the priest scattered roses and bay leaves throughout the sanctuary. The church’s youngest congregants ...

In the fundamentalist Christian circles in which I was raised, we often joked about the Sadducees. They were “sad, you see” ...

Satan’s kingdom in biblical literature is not democratic. (The New Testament Book of) Revelation describes him as a dragon ...

Jesus' apostle, Peter, failed in many ways, but when the tomb was opened, he had not given up hope. That's the promise of ...

If anyone takes away from the words of the book ... however, the Greek-speaking Jews preferred the larger canon found in the Greek Septuagint Bible - a 2nd-century B.C. Greek translation of ...

A cradle Episcopalian, the 34-year-old Graves, like many Christians, was taught that Jesus had died for his sins and for the ...

I’m taking the liberty this Easter, as I have in previous years, to proclaim the message of hope,” writes Sentinel Opinion ...

YHVH is an unique, disembodied, undying, always creative personality, who cares about the whole created world. We even use a pronoun of gender, although God includes both genders, because we do not ...

I missed a spot We all know the disappointment of finishing a project only to find a mistake or something we missed ...

Today is Good Friday, the most somber day on the Christian calendar. It marks the afternoon when Jesus of Nazareth was tortured to death by the Romans ...

In the story I am thinking of, he does it in a particularly surprising way: God instructs Moses, the leader of the Israelites ...

Sadly, most of us remain silent, constrained perhaps by claims of Israel’s centrality in ‘End Times’ Bible Prophecy and a movement that lobbies us to ‘Stand with Israel’. But a growing number now ...