Metal hooks weighed down with milk pots skewered the flesh of men’s backs as tridents pierced their cheeks and tongues.

After all, isn’t it conventional wisdom that Christians, Jews, and Muslims worship the same God? Aren’t we all “People of the Book” — different branches of the Abrahamic tree?

“It’s the idea that Christian worship is itself a political act ... didn’t intend the song to be political, and for many ...

People have all come together in order that they might share in the offering of worship to God. The main elements in a service of worship are: All Christian traditions believe that these elements ...