What is faith? Before it is a set of statements to be professed, it is an experience, though these two elements belong to each other. We constantly cycle between communal confession and personal ...

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Today’s Gospel might seem harsh to some, challenging their preconceptions of Jesus as never saying not nice things or being confrontational. But it has important lessons to teach about faith and about ...

Now that my home team, the Washington Nationals, is in the World Series, their opponents, the Houston Astros, will find themselves facing a Nationals pitcher named Aníbal Sánchez. A second Nationals ...

One afternoon in the city of Tyre, the story has it, the Canaanite god Melqart (also known as Heracles) and his mistress, Tyros, were strolling along the beach with their pet dog when the dog took a ...

The ancient Israelites got straightforward guidance from Scripture on how to handle people who didn’t worship Israel’s god, Yahweh. “You shall annihilate them — the Hittites and the Amorites, the ...

A verse in the Bible says God commanded the ancient Israelites to "utterly destroy" the Canaanites, among other peoples. And the disappearance of the the latter group from history suggested some truth ...