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(RNS) — ‘It’s not that we’re trying to rewrite history. It’s simply that women have been obscured,’ said Beth Allison Barr.

Among the many reasons one could give for understanding mathematics besides the utilitarian ones are two which are especially estimable: Mathematics teaches us how to think, and it teaches us virtue. 

The conference will address the question "Is God's gift of sexuality mere human opinion or church dogma?" and you're invited!

The Very Rev. Dr. Douglas F. Scharf is a former associate rector for the Church of the Holy Spirit in Osprey.

Allen University was one of the the first private schools created for and operated by Black Americans in South Carolina following the Civil War.

Allen University was one of the the first private schools created for and operated by Black Americans in South Carolina following the Civil War.

KUAF 91.3 Public Radio serving parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri with local, national & international news, music and entertainment.

But what about the points he makes in his video? What about the feeling that we can basically make the Bible say whatever we want it to say? Or that it’s our prior theological commitments that determine how we understand Scripture?

But what about the points he makes in his video? What about the feeling that we can basically make the Bible say whatever we want it to say? Or that it’s our prior theological commitments that determine how we understand Scripture?

By Kimberly Winston They are questions every good Sunday school teacher knows to expect: Why does the New Testament include four gospels, telling the story of Jesus’s life four different ways? What was each author trying to persuade us of—and did he succeed? Those questions are central to the work of Michal Beth Dinkler, Associate Professor of New Testament and ancient Christianity at Yale Divinity School. This summer, Dinkler will be the one tackling those questions when she teaches The Da...