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The good news is scripture tells a lot about peace – including that its meaning is so much deeper than the absence of ...

In the whole Hebrew Bible the full appellation ‘El Shaddai’ is used only in connection with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Shaddai by itself also appears 31 times in the ancient book of Prophet Job, who ...

Bob Dylan remembers the exact moment Jesus Christ entered his life in a way he could not ignore. The physical and emotional ...

Images of the son of God depict him as petting lions, rescuing another boy from a tower, and standing on a sunbeam.

As a culture, if we want to overcome all the degraded versions of sexuality, we need to reconnect sexuality to the divine, to ...