The divine cannot be reduced to scientific explanation or empirical inquiry. God exists beyond the categories through which ...
All three faiths trace their spiritual ancestry to Abraham and believe in one God. Yet their origins set them on very ...
For a Christian, reading this book is like taking an introductory language course. You may not learn to speak the new language fluently, but in the process of studying it you discover a great deal ...
Aaron Abramson served in the Israeli Defense Forces before abandoning his faith and wandering the world in search of meaning.
(The Conversation) — The festival of Shavuot, marked this year on June 5 and 6, celebrates the biblical story of God revealing Torah – Jewish scriptures and teachings – to the Israelites at Mount ...
A JTA essay on “fictionalism” describes a worldview incapable of surviving more than a few generations, writes Rabbi Warren Goldstein. “It’s just what we Jews do,” Hershovitz explains. “[I]t keeps me ...
It’s not easy getting teens to think about God. Even if they go to Jewish day school. When one Jewish educational organization asked day school students in middle school and high school several years ...
Allison Yarrow concludes her review of my novel, “The Gospel of Anarchy,” by citing my quotation of G.K. Chesterton saying that “Christianity alone has felt that God… must have been a rebel as well as ...
Judaism has always evolved. In a world of instant access and fading institutions, rabbinic leadership must evolve with it.
Do Christians and Muslims worship the same God, as Pope Francis and suspended Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins affirm? Or are Allah and the Christian deity two different things, as the ...