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Although Schneerson apparently never made any explicit statements on the…
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Every religion that has appealed to large numbers over extended…
Professor Nibley had the rare gift, not of telling his…
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Classical Greece and Rome have been gone for centuries. But…
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Located about ten miles north of Jerusalem, Bethel functioned as…
Excommunication for both moral failures and for doctrinal errors has…
The relationship between psychology and related disciplines, on the one…
For believers, which myths you accept as historically true often…
Just as the pilgrim undertakes a great and difficult journey…
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The play "Nathan the Wise," by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781),…
The practitioners of bird divination, known as "augurs," attempted to…
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Today new religions are being created at an ever-increasing pace-possibly…
In his fervor to find God, St. Simeon lived atop…
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Calvin's Institutes are rarely read. There is "an odd sort…
The Torah, the Mishnah, the Apocrypha--these are familiar names, but…
For most Christians, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in…
The tiny country of Malta is neither tiny in history…
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He lived on a column and preached to seekers from…
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At first glance, ancient Egypt, with its hundreds of exotic…
Although originally settled as a penal colony for England, Australia…
How could any intelligent person believe that? Many do. It's…
Islamic folklore features legends, doctrines, and suppositions regarding the greatest…
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For over a thousand years, Dionysius was one of the…
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Just what defines a prehistoric religion and what are the…
That a Jewish scholar and Israeli diplomat has written a…
Africa is undergoing an astonishing religious transformation, and may become…
One of the more interesting Christian thinkers writing today is…
Do religious beliefs have a role to play in public…