The New Testament writers faced a problem when they tried to describe Christian life after the resurrection. They wrote for an audience who were experiencing the risen Christ still at work.

To encounter the divine in an intimate, transcendent way is not an experience reserved for certain people because they are faithful, pious, godly, virtuous or holy. An encounter with the mysterium ...

More people should know the name Bessie Coleman. Born today in 1892 in the small town of Atlanta, Texas, Coleman was working as a manicurist in Chicago in the 1910s when she first learned about the ...

This book provides a unique visual history of the Qur'an using fifty-five rare, beautiful and significant Qur'an manuscripts. A general introduction guides the reader through the Qur'an's entry into ...

Have you ever had a "Divine encounter"? A friend once asked me, "What's a Divine encounter. . . is it like talking to an angel or something?" "Dear me no," I answered, "and you won't find a definition ...

In The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times (HMH, Sept.), Bible scholar and professor emeritus of Hebrew Literature at Harvard James Kugel looks at people’s encounters with God as they are ...