David
New VR game lets kids, adults face-off against Goliath
By Bob Smietana — February 2, 2021
(RNS) — In a new VR game, the Philistine giant is tougher to beat than Darth Vader.
When saints fall
By Thomas Reese — February 25, 2020
(RNS) — I can forgive sins of weakness, but I am not ready to forgive Theodore McCarrick, Vanier, Harvey Weinstein and other men who are alleged to have abused their power to prey on the vulnerable.
David raped Bathsheba, and why that matters
By Russell L. Meek — November 1, 2019
(RNS) — If we can use a softer label or somehow chalk sexual violence up to lust or hormones or a woman’s seduction, those who defend or cover up for clergy sexual abuse are off the hook.
Kenya’s presidential race takes pages from the Bible
By Lauren Markoe — October 11, 2017
NAIROBI (RNS) — Religion has long figured prominently into Kenyan politics. But the great lengths presidential candidates and their supporters have gone to to connect themselves to the Bible and its heroes in the lead-up to this month's presidential election have disturbed many religious leaders and scholars.
Archaeologists dig up Philistine artifacts where Goliath may have walked
By Yonat Shimron — July 11, 2016
TEL ZAFIT, Israel (RNS) The excavation, now in its 21st year, is one of a handful of digs in southern Israel producing everything from pottery shards to bones belonging to the people best known for their famous warrior Goliath.
From polygamy to incest, confronting the Old Testament’s strange sexual standards
By Jonathan Merritt — April 8, 2016
Some of the Bible's passages are deeply troubling, and despite the wishful thinking of some Christians, are difficult to reason away.
Geraldine Brooks’ ‘The Secret Chord’ tells the story of David
By Kim Lawton — October 16, 2015
MARTHA’S VINEYARD, Mass. (RNS) Geraldine Brooks told the PBS television program “Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" that she returns to religious themes because she is drawn to the human quest for meaning.
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