Rod Dreher revealed recently that he couldn't come up with more than six of the Ten Commandments from memory. He also pointed out the irony of this fact coming from someone who often gets on his "high ...

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First, a little bookkeeping. Several readers wrote to correct my assertion that God imposed a flat tax on the Hebrews. They explained that God’s half-a-shekel tariff is actually a head tax. With a ...

I’ll start my thought on Shav’uot with a bit of “Adult Education” and then to a thought that addresses the inner life. “Decalogue” in Exodus 34:28 came into English as “ten verses” in the Tyndale ...

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Louisiana’s Republican Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law this week that will require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms. The sponsor of the bill, republican Representative Dodie Horton, ...

Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings is another retelling of the Moses story, starring Christian Bale as Moses and Joel Edgerton as Ramses. The film brings a more action-packed, dramatic version of ...

Blurrier and blurrier grow the lines that used to separate genres, formats and territories in television. ABC's dreadful, doleful remake of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 classic "The Ten Commandments" ...