Micronesia's Nan Madol is one of the very few places in the world which continues to perplex archaeologists. How and why it ...

Hawawshi makes a smashing debut in my unofficial catalog of Spectacular Sandwiches of the World. Cumin, coriander, allspice, ...

A key moment in Christianity, Islam and Judaism which requires a certain amount of faith to believe could have happened - now ...

All religious scriptures have something to say.” Author Benyamin, who won the JCB Prize for Literature in 2018 for his book, ...

The Bible employs many merisms, in which two contrasting words stand in for a whole spectrum. “Male and female” is one ...

Entire worlds exist in languages. If you don’t know the language, you might physically be there, but you’re not really there. You’re like a ghost floating on the surface.

We read in the Acts of the Apostles, when the day of Pentecost had come, they were together in one place. Suddenly there came ...

These transformations frequently contributed to the Jew’s isolation from his non-Jewish or secular environment. Some Jewish ...

Moses' parting of the Red Sea in the Bible is one of the most iconic miracles of the Old Testament - and now some scientists ...

Moses parting the Red Sea is one of the most famous stories in the Bible - and now scientists have claimed that the event ...

Like many Anglicans, I’ve been reciting some version of the Nicene Creed since I was old enough to sit through a church ...

As a (near) lifelong bureaucrat, I always have an interest in, and a certain fellow feeling with, past colleagues facing ...