I have heard it said by some of my colleagues that Mark’s Gospel is a subversive gospel. Their reasoning is that this Good News account of Jesus cuts to the heart of social, political, religious and ...

Monroe County Community College President Dr. Kojo Quartey recently authored an article in The Monroe News accentuating some of the positive attributes of Monroe County, Michigan’s “cornerstone.” He ...

One of the many Old Testament foreshadows of the New Testament is found in Exodus 15:26: If you will diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD your God, and do that which is right in His eyes, and ...

In Impurity and Sin in Ancient Judaism, Jonathan Klawans outlines the differences between ritual impurity and moral impurity. Moral impurity, which includes acts like adultery and murder, comprises a ...

Command the children of Israel that they put out of the camp every leper, and every one that hath an issue, and whosoever is unclean by a dead armadillo. —A horrible misquote of Numbers 5:2 Leprosy, ...

Mystery and misconceptions continue to surround the biblical scourge contracted by at least 250,000 people each year. There was a time and a place when, if one wanted to be canonized, going to a leper ...

After the Angelus Sunday, with the help of a tablet and two young people, Pope Francis signed up for World Youth Day 2019 in Panama, announcing that registration for the international event has opened ...

Would you consider yourself a leper? We use that term to mean several things. It could mean a person with Hansen’s disease, the brutal ailment that attacks nerves and limbs and causes deformity. It ...