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Why did Jesus tell people to make offerings in the Temple? Why did Paul call himself a Pharisee? The Bible’s answer might surprise you.

Even after Jesus raised Jairus' daughter from the dead, the mockery did not stop. At every turn of the Lord's three-year, magical, mystery, Gospel tour, He was hounded, mocked, belittled, made fun of, ...

Philip Shenon’s “Jesus Wept” looks at the church since World War II, with particular focus on the clerical abuse crisis and ...

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

In the Beatitudes, Jesus turns the popular meaning of 'blessed' on its head.

Author Richard Foster tells how, as a teenager, he signed up for an internship in Alaska, thinking he would have the adventure of “working on the first high school above the Arctic Circle.” The ...

Exegetical theologian D.A. Carson was very perspicacious in remarking that “evil is the primal cause of suffering, rebellion ...

Today we have an account of the first family. And boy, what a family it was. A man had two sons. Cain, the first born, is ...

Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

But there is a great consolation in being loved distinctly. And this love extends to the world around us: You may know the ...