What would cause a village of cannibals to give up head-hunting? In the case of the Yali, a primitive tribe in Papua, Indonesia, it was the Bible. When they read the command against murder and about loving one’s neighbor, they stopped eating their enemies.1 The late US president Woodrow Wilson revered the Bible: “The more […]

When reading the Old Testament, customs mentioned in the first five books of Moses can grate on our modern sensibilities. What to do with savage practices, strange customs and laws on slavery, polygamy, and those that appear to promote patriarchy? While answering these questions adequately would require considerably more space than can be afforded here, […]