There are times when a voyage turns into a pilgrimage. Halfway through, you become aware that the presence of God has become palpable on what was meant to be an ordinary journey, that the details of ...

A monastery on Patmos builds silence in a world of noise. I was on the island called Patmos. To be precise, I was in the Orthodox Monastery of Saint John the Theologian, on a fortified hilltop once ...

Curse tablets were popular and widely used in the ancient world. The corresponding incantations were often inscribed or carved on thin sheets of lead – with the intention that these would then cause ...

What do scriptural accounts of monstrous beings like Leviathan and Behemoth tell us about our experience of the sacred? When I started reading the Bible as a teenager, I was shocked to read the ...

The cryptic language of the Book of Revelation — famous for its exotic imagery, including a red beast with seven heads and a symbolic female figure likened to the evils of Babylon — is deliberately ...