A word of tree, a whisper of stone

Among religious texts from Ugarit is also a beautiful and deeply meaningful liturgy of communal penitence. It is a Canaanite, pagan, Late br...

American white evangelicals have been recently up in arms, yelling at teachers and being rude at school board meetings, attempting to ban bo...

Mapping the US book deserts. A percentage of homes with at least 100 books. Interactive map can be found here . Video version of this blog c...

Nine classes of angels in three spheres depicted in a medieval manuscript. Have you heard about the revolution in heaven? Have you heard how...

The Bible is full of surprising images and metaphors when it speaks about God. Take for instance Jesus’ parable of the lost coin. In it God ...

It is a sign of biblical literacy, if not basic cultural competence, to know that “Christ” was not Jesus’ second name nor his surname. Child...

Ugaritic tablet KTU 1.6 with text of part of Baal Cycle. Among the Ugaritic Mythological texts, there is this interesting part of Baal myth ...