by Randall Balmer | Mar 20, 2023 | Feature-, Opinion
I used to tell my graduate students that doing archival research is just about the most fun you can have with your clothes on. I gave up graduate students when I moved from Columbia to Dartmouth more than a decade ago, and it’s a good thing because if I said something...
by Al Webb | Apr 21, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) A top British scientist claims his biblical, historical and astronomical research shows Christians have been observing Jesus’ Last Supper on the wrong day of the week. Cambridge University Professor Colin Humphreys says Jesus’ final meal with his...
by Al Webb | Jan 17, 2011 | News
LONDON (RNS) A British university study suggests that people of strong faith can spread religion through a “believers’ gene” that is part of their DNA. Cambridge University economics professor Robert Rowthorn theorizes a “predisposition toward religion” in a paper...
by Kevin Eckstrom | Aug 25, 2010 | News
WASHINGTON (RNS) Conservative Christian groups won a major victory Monday (Aug. 23) when a Washington judge halted federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to allow a suit challenging the practice as illegal to go forward. The suit, by a group of doctors and...
