It’s the Jewish High Holiday season, and Jews the world over are preparing to visit their local synagogues — for community, for prayer, and to hear the arresting, soulful sounds of the shofar. An ...

The purpose of the blowing of the shofar is to “wake up (Jews) from slumber” and cause them to reflect and “do better” at the ...

There are two sides to every story.

The Second Sunday of Lent continues to highlight motifs present in last Sunday’s readings. Although there are some similarities, the theological lens from today’s readings presents a distinct vantage ...

Bruce Chilton’s “Abraham’s Curse” (The Chronicle Review, February 15) engages in the politically and theologically fashionable practice of moral equivalence by suggesting that opposites are really ...

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The mission is a man.

Many Christians think that faith and critical thinking do not go together. Jesus said, “Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3).