As Christmas approaches, the readings for the Fourth Sunday of Advent focus our attention on the notion of a dwelling place for God. In the first reading, King David finds himself free, in that he no ...

The very first evening of Yaakov’s sojourn to Haran was existentially and religiously loaded: And Yaakov left Beersheva and set out for Haran. And he came upon a certain place (vayifga bamakon) and ...

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John’s Gospel message can be summed up in several different ways. For many, the heart of the Johannine message is John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that any who ...