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This week, I hope to persuade us to take two biblical steps in response to the racial divisions, discrimination, and violence that persist in our nation. We will explore the first step today and the second step tomorrow.

As Tulsa pauses to mark the 100 year anniversary of the racially motivated Tulsa Massacre, Rev. Robert R.A. Turner and other Black people of faith are saying that the time has come to repay as well as to remember.

Archaeologists in Israel recently reported discovering a rare bronze oil lamp hidden in the wall of a building along the Pilgrim's Path in the City of David.

President Biden is expected to officially recognize the Armenia Genocide on the 106th anniversary of the mass killings.

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 Musem of the Bible in Washington, D.C. is set to unveil 14 new exhibits and a documentary during the Easter holiday.

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.

Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority recently unearthed around two dozen ancient scroll fragments from a Dead Sea cave.