All through Israel raged a debate of a kind new in its young history. Eight years ago this tiny state, the size of New Jersey, had elbowed itself into being in a hostile part of the world and had done ...

The Qur’an declares that Allah could have made all of us monotheists, a single religious community, but didn’t in order to test our commitment to the religion that each of us have been given by God.

Is Helen Thomas a Presbyterian? One could be forgiven for wondering this after reading “Breaking Down the Walls,” a lengthy report on the Israeli/Palestinian dispute by the Presbyterian Church’s ...

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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 ...

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 ...