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In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth didn’t have any form. Over the course of six days, ...

Chinese New Year celebrates the year of the snake. During this auspicious time, Chinese Christians can take the opportunity ...

At Holden Village, a Lutheran retreat center nestled deep in the Cascades, I asked my students to consider their vocation in ...

The famous biblical book alludes to God only once. Historically, though, most interpreters have argued the poem’s about love ...

The Canaanites were there before the Jews who escaped from Egypt, and the Philistines arrived. They all built cities with stone walls. They worked–bronze and copper in hot fires. They farmed and ...

Far from feeling constrained by what the Bible says, the Middle Ages speculated boldly on whether God could have created an ...

The concept of the Divine Origin of Nation is rooted in the eternal truth that God, the Cre­ator of the Universe, designed only one na­tion: Mankind. Humankind, as the ultimate creation of God, was ...

A huge textile exhibition began a three year tour of UK cathedrals on 16 January Creator and Baptist church member Jacqui Parkinson explains how she wanted to produce artwork everyone can enjoy - and ...

From a biblical perspective, the question of whether life has meaning is a complex and involved one. The Bible teaches that ...

A: Some parts, such as the early chapters of Genesis, are myth or legend ... as “probably the most famous Bible in the world”. The Gutenberg Bible, as the three friends’ creation would come to be ...

Popular Christian apologetics organization Answers in Genesis has confirmed that Michael Howard, a member of TrueSong — the resident musical act of the Ark Encounter and Creation Museum in Northern ...