Last February, Union Theological Seminary hosted Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg for our annual Judith Davidson Moyers Women of Spirit Lecture. It’s an honor given to women whose work is ...

After a two-year pandemic pause, a team of archaeologists, academics, and students, led by Dr. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, returned to the Lower Galilee ...

(RNS) — A rendering of one figure driving a peg through the head of another initially led the team to identify the figures. (RNS) — The earliest known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and Deborah ...

The ancient mosaics, identified by the biblical heroine’s telltale tent stake, were discovered during a synagogue excavation in Galilee. The earliest known depiction of biblical heroines Jael and ...

When women seek a strong role model in the biblical literature, certainly one person to whom they turn is Deborah, who lived some 3,000 years ago. Her story is found in the Book of Judges, chapters ...

(RNS) — The remains of a city’s fiery demise near the Dead Sea have archaeologists at odds. (RNS) — What everyone agrees on is that something unusual happened at Tall el-Hammam, an ancient settlement ...

In the past several years, two battered cottonseed silos in Waco, Texas, surrounded by food trucks selling sweet tea and energy balls, have become a pilgrimage site for Christian homemakers from ...

White evangelical women are often taught that their calling is to be passive in the church, to be submissive to their husbands and to stay out of the pulpit. History, though, says otherwise. In her ...