(RNS) — A federal judge has ordered Hobby Lobby, the arts and crafts chain whose president is Museum of the Bible founder Steve Green, to forfeit an ancient tablet bearing a rare fragment of the ...

The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” Almost all succeeding versions have followed this formulation.

The judge said his ruling should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the action, which he said was at best a reaffirmation of a nearly identical 1983 congressional proclamation and at worst a ...