It’s important to tackle the topic in an age-appropriate way, experts say—and to make sure children understand how the legacy of slavery informs life today.

While reading scripture this week, I pondered our propensity to dehumanize those who suffer, actively through torture or passively through our indifference. Some stories are so familiar — rote and ...

This broken 2,700-year-old clay seal, discovered in an ancient Jerusalem rubbish pit, may include the name of the biblical prophet Isaiah.

In 1842, Verdi, in his opera Nabucco, composed a famous ‘Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves’ that became the anthem of the Italian Risorgimento, the movement that led to the rejection of foreign occupation ...

Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...