Read our latest issue or browse back issues. All of that changed in a glance at Deuteronomy 28: the blessings and the curses. I fell in love. This chapter should not have compelled me. Biblical ...

Third, unlike a contract, covenants are permanent. Finally, covenants invoke blessings and curses. We see this, for example, when someone says, “so help me God” (blessing), or “I’ll be ...

A curse at least in its most formal sense is the opposite of a blessing. Blessing is similar to charm. In the Bible, blessings and curses are related; the book of Deuteronomy prescribes that ...