A provocative papyrus …

The story is spreading across the country now, as local newspapers, websites, and bloggers are picking up early reports, like this New York Times account, of a discovery recently announced by Harvard scholar Karen L. King — a small fragment of ancient papyrus...

Rockin’ the suburbs

So, I wanted to see the Ben Folds Five when they came to Cary NC’s outdoor Koka Booth Amphitheater Sept. 16. And I wanted to see the performers well, so I skipped the bring-your-own-chair lawn tickets and shelled out for good seats up front, just six rows from...

Collateral damage

The ongoing rebellion in Syria, where a popular uprising and a ruthless dictator have given rise to more than 20,000 deaths — often brutal killings of innocent people — is also wreaking irretrievable damage on Syria’s rich archaeological heritage....

The Bible in 10 words

In a class called “Teaching the Bible to Youth and Adults” at Campbell University Divinity School, my students were asked to think about the Bible as a metanarrative for understanding our place in the world (one of our textbooks is The Drama of Scripture:...