But why are bells Christmas symbols? These Christmas ornaments have a history that is both symbolic and practical. Bells in both pagan and Christian traditions supposedly ward off evil spirits. In ...

Thousands of years ago, our ancestors used symbols to track the sale of textile and agricultural products. New research suggests that these markings informed the development of writing Sarah Kuta ...

God called you to walk according to the template; He called you according to the template of Jehu, the warrior king,” Cahn told the hundreds of Christian ... prominent as a symbol in evangelical ...

These biblical citations echo Trump’s own campaign rhetoric, which itself has taken a more vengeful, violent turn. He launched his 2024 campaign by declaring , “I am your warrior. I am your ...

In Sunday school and Bible study, she had been taught that a wife’s role is to be submissive and accept her husband’s headship. Women were not allowed to address the congregation at her church.

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What do scriptural accounts of monstrous beings like Leviathan and Behemoth tell us about our experience of the sacred? When I started reading the Bible as a teenager, I was shocked to read the ...

Senior Lecturer in Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Sheffield But beneath the use of Jezebel’s name as a way to paint powerful women as promiscuous lies something even more sinister ...

(RNS) — When former Christian artist Michael Gungor first hosted a new spiritual community in Los Angeles this year, worship began not with an organ blast or sermon series video promo ...