But an opportunity came when Herod on his birthday gave a banquet for his nobles and military commanders and the leading men ...

King Herod heard about Jesus, for his fame had become widespread, and people were saying, "John the Baptist has been raised ...

Since God would send prophets to a rebellious people, Israel, to a nation that has rebelled against him (Ez 2:4), the life of a prophet was never an easy one. In condemning corruption and oppression, ...

Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon on January 21, in which she appealed to President Donald Trump to have mercy toward groups frightened by his position on immigrants and LGBTQ+ ...

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time Ellen Wexler ...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...

She’d spent 14 years obsessed by Herod’s story, researching and writing about that tumultuous time in history. Her intent was to chronicle “the 3,000 years struggle of the Jewish people for democracy.

King Herod was troubled, and the people were troubled ... between white and black churches by founding the New Baptist Covenant. And in his Nobel acceptance speech, he said this, “The ...

Drawing connections to the feast of the Baptism of the Lord on Sunday, Francis reflected on John the Baptist as a “great prophet of hope,” noting how people flocked to him “longing for a new ...