If the prophets of ancient Israel such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Malachi and Amos were alive today, Benjamin Netanyahu would accuse them of anti-Semitism for daring to describe his government as a ...

Demonstrators in New York City during a protest against racial inequality on June 7, 2020. (CNS photo/Eduardo Munoz, Reuters) The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 after the murder of Trayvon ...

Many of the Old Testament prophets must have seemed odd indeed. Jeremiah, by his own admission, had a tremor “like a drunken man” (Jeremiah 23: 9), and Isaiah “walked naked and barefoot three years” ...

Chosen by Andrew Abernethy, professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College, coeditor of “The Prophets and the Apostolic Witness,” and author of “Savoring Scripture: A Six-Step Guide to Studying the ...

Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...

When Henry Millstein moved to town in July so his wife, the Rev. Dr. Rebecca Irelan, could take over as pastor at Eureka First United Methodist Church, Humboldt County gained a new author. Millstein — ...

The Messiah refers to an agent of God who helps bring about this transformation. The Jewish tradition teaches that this agent ...

Archaeologists in Israel say that they have found a clay seal mark that may bear the signature of the Biblical Prophet Isaiah. The 2,700-year-old stamped clay artifact was found during an excavation ...

David and Goliath is probably one of the most well-known stories from the Old Testament. As many of us learned in Sunday School, God helped David kill the Israelites’ giant foe by guiding one of five ...