Menachem Rosensaft, the son of survivors, challenges the comforting messages of Judaism’s best-known collection of verse. Of the 150 psalms in the book known in Hebrew as “Tehillim,” the 23rd may be ...

How much did the Blessed Virgin Mary know about Jesus? The Catholic Church teaches that the Holy Spirit revealed to Mary the knowledge of the divinity of Christ and His incarnation, from the beginning ...

What can we say about how Jesus most likely understood himself? Did he call himself the messiah? If so, what did he mean by it? And did he call himself God? Here I want to stake out a clear position: ...

What would you do if you were 12 and suddenly found yourself charged with God-like powers? Would you use them for good? For bad? Perhaps a little of both? For one Grade 7 boy whose mind starts to ...

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. On the Thursday night after Donald Trump won the presidential election, an obscure but telling celebration ...

Clay Crum opened his Bible to Exodus Chapter 20 and read verse 14 one more time. “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” it said. He prayed about what he was going to do. He was the pastor of First Baptist ...

Before Jesus arrived and his divine father chilled out, the Old Testament God was, ironically, kind of a hellraiser. He was not a nice guy. He really liked killing people. And he may have actually ...

The cult Love Has Won believed that its leader, Amy Carlson, was God incarnate. Former members have said they experienced abuse and exploitation during their time with the group. Carlson was found ...