“Africa is bleeding,” Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa wrote recently. The African nations have thrown off colonial rule, only…
The three fragments of papyrus have been hidden away for a hundred years in an Oxford University library. But a…
Yesterday the much ballyhooed Nixon film opened to record crowds across the country. I hope you haven’t wasted your money…
The biggest news for biblical scholars these days is that they can finally study the complete Dead Sea Scrolls. The…
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Last week the president went on national television to explain his decision to send 20,000 U.S. troops to Bosnia as…
The time was just after World War II. Communism had descended like a dark shadow over most of Eastern Europe.…
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She’s just a barefoot cartoon figure in a buckskin dress. But Pocahontas, Walt Disney’s latest animated heroine, is expected to…
Three young boys—a Protestant, a Catholic, and a Jew—unveiled a bronze plaque on the courthouse wall in Montgomery County, Maryland.…