God’s personal name appears 6,823 times in Scripture. A new book explores what it means — and why it still matters today. In an age of religious confusion, the greatest need is simple: to know the ...

Politics begins with the way we use words, George Orwell reminded us. At a precarious moment for relations between Muslims and their others it is important to recall that Allah is not the name of the ...

The first time Khalil Amani saw religious sect leader Yahweh ben Yahweh deliver his sermon as “the Son of God,” Amani truly believed he was in the presence of someone divine. The Nation of Yahweh ...

(RNS) — In his new book, Miles arrives at some surprising conclusions on the nature of God in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the Quran. (RNS) — Ever since 9/11, Americans have been treated to ...

Yale’s distinguished literary critic and more-than-amateur, but less-than-professional religionist Harold Bloom treats readers to a profoundly humane internal dialogue between Yeshua (Jesus) of ...

The prayer of the Christian is personal and relational. It is not offered to some unknown being or mysterious void. When Christians pray, we pray to someone. It is familial. God has revealed himself ...

Granerød writes: “The article assumes that there is a correspondence between the size of a temple and its divine resident.” He compares the architectural layouts of Solomon’s Temple and the ʿAin Dara ...