Nehemiah’s account chronicles his efforts not only to restore the walls of Jerusalem but also to strengthen its returning inhabitants.

If the editor of Ezra-Nehemiah rearranged passages to achieve a specific literary effect, how would that have affected the story flow?

Blamed for all sorts of bad behavior, a long-maligned hormone is being reappraised.

Many of us probably nurse a dearly held grudge against someone—even though that grudge mostly just hurts us.

What does the Bible say about holding grudges and seeking revenge when you’ve been wronged?

Let’s put away the airbrush and take a closer look at this person we call the “self”—and why we think it needs an airbrush in the first place.

Avoiding another Hiroshima begins with you and me.

Vision interviews Italian philosopher and academic Donatella Di Cesare, author of two recent books addressing conditions that threaten the global status quo.

We are by nature focused first on self. Until we change that, the world will never work for all of us.

How and why do people convince themselves to view others as less than human? Vision reviews David Livingstone Smith’s On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It.

The idea of matter as the basis of everything may seem beyond question. But a solely material view of the world doesn’t fill the enduring human need to understand why we’re here and what it all signifies.

Freed from Babylonian captivity, some exiled Jews returned to rebuild Jerusalem. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah detail their story.

With her Jewish ethnic group facing annihilation in the days of the Persian Empire, Queen Esther risks her life to forestall the plan.

Are some common myths keeping you from appreciating and even enjoying the teenagers in your life?

Cannabidiol (CBD) products, derived from marijuana, are increasingly popular. Do they work, and are they safe?

Vision reviews Vexed: Ethics Beyond Political Tribes, in which author James Mumford proposes a way out of the political trenches that today divide the world into “sides.”

Vision reviews Donatella Di Cesare’s 2020 book Resident Foreigners, in which she proposes a new philosophy of migration.

Are border walls the best way to ensure safety from outside forces?

Pandemics like COVID-19 were predicted, though few took notice. Where do we go from here?