Belief and Friends

Nova’s daily look at religion and belief as a historian or anthropologist would see it — what people believe and why, where traditions came from, how their texts were written and handed down, and where they (and unbelief) disagree. Believers, scholars, skeptics and the theological counter-arguments all get a fair hearing. Topped with Text in Context: one passage quoted exactly and cited, then who wrote it and when, what it meant first, how it is read today, and how a skeptic or another tradition sees it. Every source linked.