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"Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’" (John 14:6). This Bible verse comes from the Gospel of John, one of the four gospel ...

Conceptions of individual rights that have guided modern civilization are rooted in a idea with biblical origins.

The World Evangelical Alliance Secretary General-designate Rev. Botrus Mansour urged Christians to celebrate their unity in ...

Meeting with members of the Pontifical Biblical Commission earlier today, Pope Benedict XVI expounded on the nature of humanity which, he said, finds its true freedom and happiness within the ...

On the Culture, Religion, Technology podcast, Bambi Francisco speaks with Thomas Arnold – research associate at the Human-Robot Interaction Lab at Tufts University. He’s the Programs lead for AI and ...

Hannah Arendt was raised in a secular, socially progressive Jewish family. She studied philosophy under Martin Heidegger, perhaps the greatest philosopher of the 20th century, and in 1929 she received ...

Nick Tosches has written a new novel that Publishers Weekly calls unflinchingly blasphemous, mirthfully vulgar and ultimately brilliant. It's about a small-time con man of ancient times who steals, ...

The Vatican has declared that transgender sex-change surgeries are an affront to God, describing the procedures as being on par with abortion and euthanasia in a newly-released doctrine. The 20-page ...