While putting together a book of readings recently, I ran across some old questions that have occupied scholars, theologians, believers, and probably even atheists over the centuries. Do we have a ...

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The Torah verses convey profound messages that we can insightfully extract for our daily lives. Rabbi Shay Tahan, the Rosh Kollel of Shaarei Ezra in Brooklyn, NY, graciously opens the gates to unders ...

Most of us are failing to appropriate what God has already made available to us because of ignorance. “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, ...

It’s been my habit for more years than I can remember to read the Bible in a Year, with Zoe, in the morning. We follow various plans and just a few months back I was excited when we came round to ...

I once attended a seminar on “vocation” delivered by a Benedictine monk. He recounted how, if someone bounced up to him with a beaming smile and declared, “I am convinced God has called me to be a ...

Everybody asks the why questions of God. But what’s it take to keep the faith even when we don’t get answers? I suppose it happens at a different time for each individual, but somewhere along our life ...