Q: I am doing the Bible in a year with Father Schmitz. I am trying to understand how the story of Ham who saw his father naked was interpreted to involve incest? A: My questioner this week brings up ...

Slavery and the biblical curse of Ham. In Noah’s Curse, Stephen Haynes provides an in-depth look at how the oft-cited biblical “curse of Ham” or “curse of Canaan” was used in the American South to ...

In The Curse of Ham, scholar David M. Goldenberg argues that “the single greatest justification for Black slavery for more than a thousand years” came from the pages of the Bible itself. Strikingly, ...

When empty, a parenthesis provides mysterious emphasis. When filled, you wonder whether the contents weigh more than a ...