It’s intriguing to think of how we honor the virgin Mary at Christmastime, and how we can also rightly honor a prostitute, ...

By Michael J. Brooks Dr. J.D. Gray served for many years as pastor at First Baptist Church, New Orleans. He often delighted ...

By Michael J. Brooks Dr. J.D. Gray served for many years as pastor at First Baptist Church, New Orleans. He often delighted in telling a Civil War story from 1865. The First Baptist Church, Columbia, ...

God appears to sanction some lies when life and His divine purpose are at stake. Firstly, Rahab appeared to act with God's blessings with her lie that the spies had left Jericho (when they were ...

Readers might be tempted to skip the first 17 verses of Matthew’s Gospel. After all, it’s just a genealogy of who “begat” whom, a list of names we don’t recognize and can’t pronounce. We’re tempted to ...

The first Jewish university, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was opened by Lord Balfour, seven years after the ...