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Social scientists have learned crucial lessons from the success of anti-foot binding campaigns in the early to mid-1900s. For example, the missionaries that began the fight against foot binding did not try to lead the movement. Instead, they recruited and helped organize local Chinese people to lead the movement. Though not all of these indigenous leaders and participants in the campaign were Christians, many were. The movement effectively drew in non-Christian intellectual leaders like Kang Youwei by using arguments grounded in the understandable Chinese desire for respect from other nations.

Archeologists in  Jerusalem have discovered a rare silver coin believed to have been used to pay the Temple Tax during King Herod's reign.

The truth is, we remember much of the civil rights movement through its very visible male leaders — giants like Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy. Virtually all of the main characters in the film “Selma” are men.

But there were so many women, both behind the scenes and on the front lines, who shaped the movement.

French-Norwegian archeologists have reportedly uncovered remains of an ancient Christian monastery in Egypt.

Harriet Tubman is set to replace former President Andrew Jackson on the front of the $20 bill.

Frederick Douglass’s life was a marvelous fusion of biblical teaching, conversion, personal piety, and social action. His life and work had a profound impact on the United States and beyond, and was shaped by his conviction that we are all made in the image of God.

In Israel, archaeologists have unearthed 3,000-year-old cloth remnants dating to the time of King David that are dyed with the unique royal purple described in the Bible as worn by biblical kings and even Jesus himself.

In his new book, Holy Land Archaeology on Either Side: Archaeological Essays in Honour of Eugenio Alliata, Archaeologist Győző Vörös shares that the dance floor where John the Baptist was condemned to death may have been discovered.

According to a recent article, an archeological team “re-erected two of the columns that had once held up the roof of the courtyard where the princess Salome is said to have danced.”

Archaeologists in Israel recently discovered a ritual bath believed to be from the Second Temple period.