“She’s not at rest,” said Betty Mencucci, president of the Burrillville Historical Society, who painstakingly restored Sherman’s gravestone only to see it vandalized again and again. BURRILLVILLE, R.I ...

The biblical story of David and Bathsheba is as dramatic as it is ambiguous: A powerful man sees a beautiful stranger and summons her. She becomes pregnant. The man clumsily tries to cover it up, but ...

The Hebrew Bible perhaps considers no woman as beautiful or as involved in a sex scandal as King David's most famous wife, Bathsheba. The text goes out of its way to speak of Bathsheba's beauty, yet ...

The current debate over what happened to Bathsheba forces us to think deeper about motives and power. As a kid growing up in the church, I certainly heard a lot about Jesus. But just short of the ...