When most people think of Torah, they likely think of the Five Books of Moses (also known as the Pentateuch): Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy. These five books together form the first and most sacred third of the Jewish Bible, the Tanakh. In synagogues throughout the world, they are
The French Revolution, which began in the summer of 1789, famously proclaimed the new creed of liberty, equality, and fraternity. Over the next several decades, this creed spread as a revolutionary force from France to the rest of Western Europe, and soon enough to the Spanish and French colonies in
All Hallows Evening Prayer is a service of worship in the evening for all pilgrims on the journey to the heavenly city. We see two major trends affecting Christianity in the United States in this century. The first is that a growing number of people are not attending church. The
This past year has been incredibly difficult for Sylvia Havlish. Shortly after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, her husband of 49 years died. On top of that unimaginable loss, she received a cancer diagnosis shortly thereafter. Havlish—a decadeslong grief counselor who facilitates group sessions at Grace Lutheran Church in
In Pirkei Avot, a talmudic sage by the name of Ben Heh Heh taught: “According to the labor is the reward.” (5:23) You might think of this as the Jewish version of the well-known adage, “No pain, no gain.” But is Ben Heh Heh’s version of the teaching true? If
Eugene McCarraher writes in his The Enchantments of Mammon as if he has our harried last-minute Christmas shopping in mind: The grotesque ontology of scarcity and money, the tawdry humanism of acquisitiveness and conflict, the reduction of rationality to the mercenary principles of pecuniary reason—this ensemble of falsehoods that compromise the foundation
Just 63% of Americans self-identified as Christian this year, a marked drop from 75% a decade ago. Christmas is just 10 days away, and most Americans will celebrate the birth of Jesus. But a new poll from Pew shows the share of U.S. adults who consider themselves Christian is falling.
10 Great Ways to Give People Hope Among the things that the people whose lives were affected by the tornadoes and severe thunder storms that hit Kentucky and other states this past Friday need is hope. Ten (Very Different) Church Trends for 2022Being “laser-focused on ministering to a specific geographical