Romans 13 played a critical role in the American Revolution, writes George Mason University historian Lincoln Mullen. For obvious reasons, loyalists who favored obedience to King George III of England ...

Attorney General Jeff Sessions provoked a strong worldwide reaction and debate when he used passages from the Bible's Romans 13 to defend President Donald Trump's administration's new policy of ...

Around A.D. 49, the Roman emperor Claudius expelled the Jews from the city of Rome. Historians argue about the exact date and the reasons, but we know that Claudius did not want them holding office or ...

The Bible was trending nationwide on Twitter last week. As an evangelical Christian who looks to the Scriptures as the divinely inspired, authoritative word of God, I’d generally be pleased for the ...

My Sunday school class was abuzz with intrigue and investigative insight. We spent the quarter in Paul’s letter to the Romans, an exercise in cross-cultural and theological study. But when we got to ...

It’s been called one of the most important and most misunderstood passages in the Bible: Romans 13:1-7. “The most historically influential paragraph Paul ever wrote,” in the words of one scholar.

In 1750, a young Massachusetts pastor named Jonathan Mayhew gave a sermon titled “A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers,” which interpreted the 13th ...

It’s not every day that a Bible verse gets treated like a bondage contract, but that is exactly what happens when Christian nationalists wield Romans 13 as a blunt instrument, demanding unquestioning ...