What really happened in Paradise? Was the “Tree of Knowledge” merely a symbol of obedience and sin, or is there something ...

But for all the despondency in Sefer Bereshit’s first chapters, there is still hope. “Some men go on a hunger strike in the ...

(RNS) — Married to a member of an Episcopal church choir, I had the pleasure this past month of sitting through two performances of Lessons and Carols, the musical-scriptural summary of the reason for ...

except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” Today’s first reading walks us through the precursor to the ...

If Man was created without the capacity for shame, why would it suddenly emerge as a result of prohibited eating?

Are we to eat the etrog a couple of weeks early? While as your local Jewish preschooler can sing to you, on Rosh Hashanah we dip the apple in the honey, and on Sukkot we take the etrog and lulav and ...

John 21:25 “And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be ...

As I sat down with my son for the birds-and-bees talk, it struck me how natural and straightforward conversations about human reproduction can seem compared to the more complex theological discussions ...

Researchers believe they have found evidence for the existence of Adam and Eve - not long afterarchaeologists are thought to have discovered the "remains of Noah's Ark." There is mounting evidence ...

In the town of Metepec, southwest of Mexico City, artisans create clay figures that are intertwined with their faith.