Monotheism and the doctrine of the Trinity evolved through an amazing process in many messy social structures. Monotheism! How did our ancestors in the faith ever arrive at that? In our last post, we ...

In a more nuanced way, a number of influential scholars, such as Rodney Stark and Regina Schwartz, have also cast monotheism as particularly intolerant towards the "Other" and thus a fertile ground ...

The further back we go in history the more glaringly evident it is that humanity at its most primal stage of development had a proclivity for a plurality of gods and goddesses. Africans, long regarded ...

In a recent essay for The Atlantic, David Wolpe, a rabbi and visiting scholar at Harvard Divinity School, sizes up former president and insurrectionist Donald Trump as follows: “the lavishness of his ...

Is God dead? The fantastic proposition of God’s demise has fuelled our wonderings for millennia. The great philosophers and scientists have conceded that God’s existence or non-existence is a personal ...

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Archaeological discoveries have revealed inscriptions referencing “YHWH and his Asherah,” raising major questions about early Israelite religion. Some scholars argue this suggests that certain ...