In “Are Sacred Texts Sacred? the Challenge for Atheists” (The Chronicle Review, September 21), Carlin Romano asks what the atheist’s position should be on sacred texts. Incredibly, he concludes that ...

As I scrolled through Twitter, filled with rage at recent events, I came across a tweet that quoted chapter 31 of the book of Jeremiah: “A cry is heard in Ramah — Wailing, bitter weeping — Rachel ...

“A sacred text is a text that haunts me all the time – but it doesn’t paralyze me.” – Rabbi David Hartman There is no dispute that Jews love to argue about our ancient texts. We crave the rigor of ...

Sacred texts mean vary amongst religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and other times not. Sacred texts mean different things to different religions—sometimes they’re essential to belief and ...

How should we approach seemingly inconsistent messages in sacred texts? Religious types insist that contradictions in sacred scriptures are not cardinal flaws. They blame it on artistic classification ...

Religious texts have always had a widespread impact, influencing our everyday customs, political preferences and even our concept of time. An annual exhibit at Hatcher Graduate Library, “A History of ...

Sacred Texts of War is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, ...

COPENHAGEN — A new law was passed in Denmark’s parliament on Thursday that makes it illegal to desecrate any holy text in the country, after a recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by a ...

An Israeli military team was helping to locate the bodies of a Jewish couple buried in the debris when they came across some holy Jewish texts. Twitter A photo that captured the commander of an ...

Victorian Poetry and biblical criticism. Victorian Studies is a thriving academic subfield complete with a healthy selection of its own learned societies and journals. It is primarily made up of ...

For years, Arvo Pärt has been one of the most performed contemporary classical composers in the world. Calle Hesslefors/ullstein bild via Getty Images Pärt emerged from a period of personal artistic ...