After escaping enslavement, she heroically returned to other southern plantations many times to help free enslaved people. To ...

ELOHIM: Translated as God (a plural noun, for more than one, almost always used with singular verbs, the dual form Eloah is used in Job); Elohim is the royal I; and is very often used in the Quran. It ...

The identity of the next pope is "totally unpredictable", a Vatican expert said, adding that the timely release of the film ...

The Times Opinion columnist discusses religion and belief — at this moment in our politics, and in our lives more generally.

In a recent article, a computer engineer presents the unconventional argument that the true location of the biblical Garden ...

The power of a pope, it is said these days, is seen on the day of his funeral: with the 'greats of the earth' (a terrible expression...) competing to attend. But this belief is a cynicism, ...

Ross Douthat: The death of Pope Francis ends, or at least temporarily suspends, a tumultuous period in the life of the ...

“Family values” have returned to eugenics, the practice of selective breeding of humans to improve their genetic composition.

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

Retracted: A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of ...

It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...

Beauty and wellness types are embracing saffron, with a wave of products making the ancient ingredient feel new again.