Do not go after other gods to serve them and worship them ... punish the king of Babylon and that nation, the land of the Chaldeans, for their iniquity,' says the LORD; 'and I will make it a perpetual ...

There is no doubt that the audience the First Epistle of Peter (1 Peter) had in mind was suffering persecution. Whether it ...

A new book by the historian Linda Gordon considers seven social movements that transformed the country — not all of them for the better. In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a ...

As Pharoah hardened his own heart and refused to let the Hebrews worship the only God worthy of glory, God brought down the whole nation and wiped out the Egyptian army. Babylon was no different.

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden. By Jennifer Howard Leonard S. Marcus brings the wonder of a 1968 snapshot to a new ...

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The topics of this fleet and vivid new account of the papacy’s recent history are familiar—disputes over sexual mores, war and peace, church and state, money, and the reach of Vatican ...

Miller’s “The Last Manager” is a biography of the fiery Orioles skipper who was ahead of his time as a strategist Katherine Stewart’s book attempts to debunk the notion that Trumpism is ...

A look at the curved oval iconic representation of Shiva Lingam placed on a globular base which is found in the Sanctum Sanctorum Garbhagraha of all Shiva temples has given rise to diverse explanation ...

As Erling Kagge relates in his thrilling book, The North Pole, the world’s northernmost point has been a lifelong and nearly fatal obsession ...