WASHINGTON — The photos are iconic - U.S. presidents being sworn into office with one hand on a Bible. But even though it's done so often, is it a requirement? The answer is, quite simply, no. It's ...

State officials have proposed an expansive list of books and stories that could become required reading. The list includes ...

Archaeologists working at an ancient site in the Levant have recovered a roughly 3,000-year-old glass head, an Iron Age ...

Teddy’s podcasting ambitions were sparked almost wholly by the example of Father Schmitz, the popular Minnesota priest who, in his podcast, reads through the entire Bible in 365 daily episodes, plus a ...

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online. Here's a ...

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‘One hundred years from my day,” Voltaire is supposed to have remarked, “there will not be a Bible on earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker.” Things haven’t worked ...