William and Carrie Bruere became missionaries in India, aiding famine-stricken children and establishing orphanages amid dire ...

A number of bible verses appear to make reference to solar eclipses, conveying messages of prophecies, power, omens, warnings, and divine signs.

In 1845, in Ireland, the potato crops were failing and potato plants were turning black and rotten. .. Belgian defense ...

Pieter Lastman’s 1614 painting captures the biblical moment when Abraham leaves everything behind to follow God’s call.

It all started with Pharaoh and a Hebrew young man, Joseph. The Bible records in the book on Genesis 41 about Pharaoh’s dreams. In one, he was standing by the Nile, when out of the river there came up ...

Author Maggie Anton shares why, after writing a novel set in the 20th century, she decided to write a novel set in Biblical ...

It is pausing a program we lead that provides more than 400,000 polio vaccinations every month in African countries, putting ...

How Christianity blurred the line between celibacy and androgyny.

“To me, this picks a particular religion’s Bible, and I am not for advancing ... devouring the crops and threatening the new settlement with famine. The devout Mormon settlers took the ...

Irish whiskey was the most popular in the world for a long time — outselling its successors Scotch (some still argue the Scots invented it first), and then American bourbon. But in the mid-to-late ...

I know only a limited amount of what happened in the past. I’m not sure I understand what is happening now. And I certainly ...