Millions of Black South Africans seek guidance from sangomas, traditional healers or so-called witch doctors who use their spiritual gifts to connect with ancestors, prescribe herbs to heal illnesses, and throw dry bones to predict the future. 　　Its a centuries-old tradition that has continued in the majority-Christian country and has adapted for the internet age: A new breed of influencer...

　　Jack Balkin’s new book, Memory and Authority, opens with an account of the “modalities” of historical argument that lawyers and judges may employ in interpreting the Constitution. These include arguments based on text, constitutional structure, and purpose, but also factors like “national ethos,” “political tradition,” and “honored authority.” It soon emerges that Balkin’s underlying goal in listing these approaches, as...

　　A cancer diagnosis flips your world and your life upside down. It distorts the way you view reality and compresses time. It forces you to weigh alternatives and make choices that normal people don’t have to make and conventional circumstances don’t dictate. Deciding to treat it, and specifically how to treat it, involves not merely what is available, but what...

　　Despite years of record-setting declines shrinking the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) to its lowest membership in nearly half a century, Southern Baptists have begun to see some signs of life within their 46,906 churches. 　　Worship attendance, small group attendance, and baptisms were up last year in the SBCs annual statistical report, released Tuesday, while membership fell below 13 million. 　　2023...

　　How to live in light of your identity in Christ 　　And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus… -Ephesians 2:6 　　In the ninth century, King Alfred the Great saved England from conquest by the Danish. At one point during his war with the Danes, Alfred was forced to seek...

　　Wednesday, May 8, 2024 　　Time to Come Clean 　　Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith. (2 Corinthians 13:5 NLT) 　　The band Milli Vanilli was quite successful in its day, selling millions of albums. But then came the...

　　Economic history—the study of economic phenomena, processes, and patterns in past time, employing tools from economics, history, and other disciplines—is a small field. For a brief time, roughly half a century ago, it was a hot area of scholarly interest, but from the 1970s until the early twenty-first century its fortunes ebbed, as historians gravitated to trendier fields such as...

　　Commentary on Today's Verse 　　Commentary on Luke 2:8-20 　　(Read Luke 2:8-20) 　　Angels were heralds of the new-born Saviour, but they were only sent to some poor, humble, pious, industrious shepherds, who were in the business of their calling, keeping watch over their flock. We are not out of the way of Divine visits, when we are employed in an honest...