When David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the birth of the State of Israel in Tel Aviv on May 14, 1948, who could have foreseen that the Arab-Israeli conflict would still be in the headlines 60 years later?

Russia’s struggle for national identity sheds light on our own need to know who we are and what’s expected of us. How does one form a sense of identity, whether as a nation or as an individual?

Some people seem to have a knack for coping with stress and trauma. Vision explores what it takes to develop robust emotional health in an increasingly turbulent world.

As the apostle Paul’s life draws to a close, he continues to demonstrate his sincere concern for those under his care and for those who will carry on his ministry.

China’s First Emperor, the head of the short-lived Qin dynasty, was a man of great and extravagant ambitions—not only for his physical, earthly life but for the life he anticipated beyond the grave.

The world’s largest Christian church bases its claim to authority on the belief that the apostle Peter spent time in the capital of the Roman Empire and founded the church there. Vision examines the evidence for that teaching.

Many people believe that we can watch anything and everything to no ill effect. But is this true?

Broadly speaking, Israeli political philosophy follows two main schools of thought: a) the political Zionism of Theodor Herzl and its subsequent synthesis in the political and practical-socialist Zionism of Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion; and b) the revisionist Zionism of Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky.

In 1896 Theodor Herzl published The Jewish State (Der Judenstaat), the basis for his reputation as the father of political Zionism.

That Zionist ideology formed the core of Ben-Gurion’s identity there can be little doubt. From his youth, the importance of settlement in the land was central to his views.