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The Bible was written within collectivist cultures. When Westerners, immersed in individualism, read the Bible, it's easy to misinterpret important elements―or miss them altogether. In any culture, the most important things usually go without being …

What was clear to the original readers of Scripture is not always clear to us. Because of the cultural distance between the biblical world and our contemporary setting, we often bring modern Western biases to the text. For example: When Western r…

The Theology Central podcast, VBC podcast, and the VBC Bible Institute podcast are all now available on the EDIFI Christian Podcast App!  The Edifi app gives you access to over 2 million Christian podcast.  Edifi is an exciting, fully-fea…

I never know what is going to show up in my email inbox and today was no exception.  This morning an email with this for the subject showed up: IS A MYSTERIOUS ASTEROID CONNECTED TO POPE FRANCIS AND THE START OF THE GREAT TRIBULATION PERIO…

You're not going to find an inscription saying this is the house of Jesus," Ken Dark admits, but the professor of archaeology and history at England's Reading University believes there's a strong case to be made for the house he's been studying for …

Experts took the gene known as ARHGAP11B - which directs stem cells in the human brain - and placed it into the brains of common marmosets. The experiment ended up with the monkey fetuses having larger, more advanced, and more-human like brains, ac…

The 14 Point Niagara Creed  1. We believe “that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God,” by which we understand the whole of the book called the Bible; nor do we take the statement in the sense in which it is sometimes foolis…

Americans are embracing dangerous conspiratorial beliefs, from QAnon to coronavirus denial.  Read a report on this dangerous trend here: Conspiracies   

The Puritan Paperbacks Series includes some of the most classic Puritan works published by the Banner of Truth. These books are selections of larger works from the Puritans, published in small paperbacks to make them more accessible and affordable. …