Early Christian writers condemned pagan sacrifices while debating among themselves the meaning of the death of Jesus.
For the 33rd time (Jan. 22) this year, a mass shooting has taken lives of innocent human beings whose only mistake was being in the way of bullets fired from a gun and usually one that was meant to ...
On a wall in my mother’s home, beneath a glassed frame, there hangs a memorial certificate which, along with a Purple Heart, was posthumously awarded to the uncle I never met. On it is the inscription ...
An archeologist quoted in a CBS News report about human sacrifice altars in Guatemala seemingly claimed the sacrificing culture wasn’t violent, adding that they were “connecting with the celestial ...
Every year on the Jewish High Holidays I send you an edited version of my High Holiday sermon. The differences between this one and the one I preached is that this one lacks some jokes, but on the ...
A prehistoric altar has been discovered by Dr. M. Steckelis of the Hebrew University in a cave not far from the main road between Tel Aviv and Haifa. The altar consisted of several circles, one inside ...
Austen Schendler writes of the Aspen Skiing Co.’s support of the proposed 5-megawatt solar energy project, speaking of sacrifice, beauty and hope, and the foundation of a noble future (“New solar farm ...
On a wall in my mother’s home, beneath a glassed frame, there hangs a memorial certificate which, along with a Purple Heart, was posthumously awarded to the uncle I never met. On it is the inscription ...