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Thus, in 21th century United States most Christians, Jews, and Muslims have rejected the zero sum mind set and believe in the Qur’an’s pluralism teachings. Only those who reject God by disbelief or by ...

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The name Bartholomew appears only four times in the New Testament, once in each synoptic gospel and once in Acts. Every time ...

The Qur’an contains 99 Arabic names (attributes or character traits) for the multifaceted essence of the one God, but not one of them connects the one God with one people, while one of the dozens of ...

Americans have always had a fraught relationship with authority. A healthy skepticism was built into our founding documents ...

Read Do Tithes and Offerings Have to Go to the Church or Can We Give Them to Other Ministries? by Linda Lyle and more ...

One of the greatest weakness and folly of man is placing their trust in a fellow human. Yes! In every relationship trust is essential, but life is wired in such a way that nothing is ever permanent.

Michelangelo’s Moses has more in common with C.S. Lewis’s Mr. Tumnus than the casual viewer might expect—namely, a couple of ...

Rev. Dr. Frederick K.C. Price passed from this life at 89 years of age. In one of his many books, he wrote, “Churches are supposed to be the churches of God. … Maybe the ...

Researchers took samples from the tooth in 2016. The results, not widely disseminated, showed it was from someone in the 5th century, too young to belong to Jesus' sainted contemporary. Experts say ...

The criticism is unfair. She was doing nothing more than quietly and respectfully speaking truth to power, an age-old and ...