The Western elites have told themselves, “Get rid of biblical religion, and we can have a better world, a world of conscience ...

These three key religious texts all offer justifications for defensive wars. But they also stress the importance of peace.

“One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my ...

The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

But with the Bible, the stakes go up. When we say that something is “in the Bible,” what do we mean? Is it the exact ...

Two 16th-century texts about the Americas by Jewish writers reflect the complicated place Jews and ‘conversos’ held in the ...

A Yiddish translation of “Arabian Nights” sounds like the set-up to a Borscht Belt joke. Yet, as a recent finalist for a ...

An LGBTQ+ pastor insists that the Christian right gets it wrong, arguing that the Bible is a queer-friendly text.

President Trump’s decision to bomb Iran may not be shaped just by politics. It may also be influenced by a controversial set of doomsday Christian prophecies that could push America’s clash with Iran ...

St. John’s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico, has announced a new graduate program that reshapes what it means to study the ...

Wars are often waged in the name of religion. So what do key texts from Christianity, Islam and Judaism say about the justification for war?Authors ...