One of the greatest challenges for Christians today is to move beyond simply acknowledging the growing religious diversity in our rapidly shrinking world to embrace religious pluralism, that is, to ...

We’re troubled by God’s commands for Israel to wipe out entire peoples. Why we should be encouraged. There is genocide in the Bible. Scripture both describes the Israelites exterminating the ...

Every once in a while, someone of genius coins an entirely new phrase that opens our eyes to see the world in a whole new light. Pope Benedict almost casually let fall a phrase in December that may ...

The Pontifical Council for Culture is setting up a new foundation, The Courtyard of the Gentiles, aimed at reaching out to atheists and agnostics. As part of Pope Benedict XVI’s efforts to further the ...

There’s more to the story of Obed-Edom. The Old Testament features stories of diverse characters whose lives represent God’s people: Rahab, the pagan prostitute who trusted the Lord and was saved.

Not long ago my niece Shira sent me some comments on the weekly portion in which Moses was saved by Pharaoh’s daughter. She compared the historical events with the life stories of her two grandmothers ...

In Paul's writing, and particularly in Galatians, we get a glimpse of how difficult and bitter the move to include non-Jews was in the early days of Christian mission. Paul was writing in the thick of ...

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The laws include prohibitions against idolatry, blaspheming God, murder, forbidden sexual relations, stealing and eating the limb off a live animal, and proscribe the establishment of a legal system.

'Righteous Gentiles' is the phrase used for those non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. At Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem, over 11,000 'Righteous Gentiles' are honored; ...