Adventurers in Europe’s great age of exploration sometimes denied the humanity of newly discovered tribes on the grounds that their remote locations — inaccessible from the Middle East — meant they ...

Pope Francis has denounced the "snake tactics" of those who spread fake news, saying the first case of misinformation is in the Bible when Eve is tempted by the serpent to eat the forbidden fruit. The ...

The professor was ill, so I’d been asked to teach the class on Pentecostalism with only a few days’ notice. I skimmed the assigned textbook, consulted a few scholarly articles, located a brief video ...

Chinese Christians understand Jesus’ seemingly contradictory directive. The Bible seems to give snakes a bad rap from the outset. Scripture depicts the serpent as evil and deceptive, from tempting ...

A version of the story of the Garden of Eden and the forbidden fruit from the Bible also appears in Greek mythology's garden ...

Relying on a passage in the Bible that says “ they shall take up serpents,’ ’ ministers said they were using the snakes to show their faith in God. Many of the snake-handling churches were in ...

Chagall commonly blended the aesthetics of Cubism, Fauvism, and aspects of Modernism with themes and imagery of his Jewish faith. The present work is from the artist's Bible series, which contains ...