At the sound of their voices the doorposts and thresholds shook and the temple was filled with smoke. “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a ...

When the experience of evil feels as palpable as the mysterium, we may well be afraid. Yet, our very distress constitutes the ...

to find refreshment in the quiet peace of God’s presence. What is heard when listening deeply may not be words, in the traditional sense. It may be a thought to take along through the day ...

The kosher laws of the Jews that mark what is “clean” and “unclean” did not just cover food; the Jews also had nothing to do with “unclean people”—the pagans around them and the schismatic Samaritans ...

I once read that people who frequent nightclubs prefer experiences best enjoyed in the dark. Dim lights create an atmosphere of secrecy and mystery, tempting them to engage in behaviors they would not ...

Our language has become a brittle shell, too fragile to hold the magnitude of our collective grief. Yet, in this poverty of words, there is an unexpected wealth: the profound presence of silence.

All of that is inevitable, but it becomes dangerous when we mistake religion for God or reduce God to the parameters of ...

Many are called but few are chosen. The call of Isaiah is one of the remarkable events in the Old Testament. Isaiah was a great prophet. He was the Prophet of the Most High God. He was chosen not as a ...

The very existence of moral values, residing in persons, and not in inanimate things, indicates the presence of God, who is the sole source of moral values, by issuing the Ten Commands and others ...