Athens I can still hear the gravel voice of Marlin Vis: “There’s no better way to understand the Text than by hearing it on the

Worthy is the Lamb that was slaughteredTo receive power and wealth and wisdom and mightAnd honor and glory and blessing! -The Revelation to John, 5.12

You are dust, and to dust you shall return.Genesis 3.19 WeCroak Ian Thomas, a young Silicon Valley app designer, rented a room in the Brooklyn

In 1989, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down its now-infamous “Reindeer Ruling.” Controversy erupted in a municipality in the hilly western side of the Keystone

One of the best books on the craft of writing that I’ve read in a while is Verlyn Klinkenborg’s Several Short Sentences about Writing. Klinkenborg

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At last [Sam] gasped: Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue?

Akedah I’ve always shuddered at Genesis 22. As a child, I’d read the story of Abraham’ s willing journey to sacrifice his son Isaac (which

The Sabbath itself is a sanctuary in which we build, a sanctuary in time. Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Sabbath Road Trip We were hours into