The great scholar Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi once wrote, “History is the faith of fallen Jews.” By “fallen Jews,” he no doubt had himself and many other secular Jews in mind. But what of Jews who are not ...

A survey of theology, history, and evangelical perspective of the Eastern and Oriental branches of the ancient tradition. Selected by Bradley Nassif, professor of biblical studies and ...

After the Soviet Union's collapse, Orthodox Christians throughout the Slavic world celebrated the slow, steady construction of churches after decades of persecution. In 2004, the poet Nina Borodai ...

In the 1950s, the future of American Orthodox Judaism looked so gloomy that the prominent sociologist Marshall Sklare predicted its imminent extinction. Sklare’s ominous forecast could not have proved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite its relatively small size, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has, in the words of historian Kathryn David, “played an ...

Sally Swetzoff leans over a sewing machine in the dining room of the Bishop’s House, just across from Unalaska’s Front Beach. She’s hemming the curtains for the bedroom windows, and she’s on a tight ...

JERUSALEM (RNS) — Over the years, many of the young Orthodox women studying at the Midreshet Lindenbaum seminary yearned to join a combat unit in the Israeli army but knew that staying religiously ...