A familiar challenge to the resurrection narrative sounds straightforward: Jesus said in Matthew 12:40 that He would...
Ancient Near East
The modern instinct to separate athletics from religion would have been incomprehensible in the ancient world. The...
The slogan “God hates religion but loves relationship” has become a staple of modern Christian language, usually...
Across the ancient world, the storm god occupies the role of cosmic hero. He commands thunder and...
Superstition thrives wherever people believe the world is governed by hidden signals, impersonal forces, or unpredictable fate....
Annihilationism is often defended as the most decisive and morally satisfying form of judgment. Extinction, it is...
The Bible does use numbers symbolically, but it does not do so arbitrarily. When numbers carry meaning,...
Few assumptions in Christian tradition are as entrenched and as rarely examined as the claim that Joseph...
Jesus’ statement that Peter would receive “the keys of the kingdom of heaven” draws on a deep...
The possibility of encountering extraterrestrial life has moved from speculative fiction into serious scientific discussion. Advances in...
