The world’s first cities, according to the Book of Genesis, were built by Nimrod, a “man of might,” after the flood that wiped out nearly all of humanity. They were spectacular — likely vibrant and ...

You can find today’s readings here. “Thus the LORD scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped building the city. That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused ...

There is a great deal of confusion among the public regarding the various spending measures which have passed or have been proposed to Congress. To some, Washington has been cursed as a modern Tower ...

Every year at Nikola-Lenivets, a large art park in a small village in the Kaluga region of Russia, artists gather to build a large wooden structure and then burn it to the ground. In March 2022, ...

Architecture After God: Babel Resurgent, by Kyle Dugdale. Birkhäuser, 440 pages, $92. A similar feeling of bemusement and loss lies in the pages of Kyle Dugdale’s Architecture After God: Babel ...

Consider the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel. Man was going to use his new-found engineering prowess to build a gateway to heaven. For what purpose? Perhaps to barge into heaven? We all know how ...