Before turning to the encyclical’s use of the Bible, however, it is worth pointing out that “Magnifica Humanitas” is not a work of biblical scholarship. Like a sermon, it draws selectively from ...

Nehemiah was the “cupbearer” (Nehemiah 1:1, 11) to the Persian king Artaxerxes I (r. 465-425 B.C.) Nehemiah 2:1 (RSV) In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was ...

We are currently living in a nation that desperately needs leaders who are resolute in standing upon the principles created by our Founding Fathers. It is these tenets of freedom and liberty that have ...

Nehemiah is the last historical book of the Old Testament. Although the Book of Esther appears after Nehemiah in the canon, the events in Esther occurred in the time period between Ezra 6 and 7, ...