As someone who researches slavery in the ancient Mediterranean world, especially in the Bible, I often hear remarks like, “Slavery was totally different back then, right?” “Well, it couldn’t have been ...

Recently, my wife, Becky, and I were driving to a familiar Southern California city when we got in a bit of a disagreement. In the kindest way, she stated several times that I was driving in the wrong ...

Black abolitionist Sojourner Truth, shown here in a portrait from the late 1800s, was born into slavery in 1797 in the Town of Esopus in Ulster County and was later freed. She spent the first 32 years ...

‘The Drunkenness of Noah’ by Giovanni Bellini. Wikimedia, CC BY According to a report by an independent oversight committee released in March 2024, the Church of England should pay £1bn in reparations ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. [Slavery in the Greco Roman cultures of the New Testament] is more like indentured servanthood. It's not what we think of as ...

Human slavery, America's original sin, developed into a moral crisis, culminating in a Civil War that cost 518,333 lives. That exceeds the deaths in every other U.S. war, from the Revolution through ...

Recently, my wife, Becky, and I were driving to a familiar Southern California city when we got in a bit of a disagreement. In the kindest way, she stated several times that I was driving in the wrong ...

The effects of ancient slavery, on the other hand, aren’t as tangible today – and most Americans have only a vague idea of what it looked like. Some people might think of biblical stories, such as ...