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Lauren Green of Fox News spoke with Rabbi Tuly Weisz of Israel, who described the terror ongoing in Israel and his calls for "spiritual solutions" and faith-based answers.

Scripture for Life: The litmus test for people of any faith and spirituality today is the measure of how deep their active compassion is for the "other" among them which also includes non-human life, the new migrants of climate change.

“There's a real danger in what we've done to our eschatology because it's driven more by hundreds of preachers, personal interpretations taken out of context instead of consistent historical biblical theology.”

God’s command to love your neighbor extends to our neighbors in Creation, including the land, waters, trees, animals, and human kin.

The Sermon on the Mount contains some of the most quotable teachings of Jesus. Even people who aren’t believers know the concepts and phrases from these chapters in Matthew: “salt of the e...

It is one of the most controversial books in the Holy Bible; some say its theological underpinnings are responsible for launching the Protestant Reformation, blaming the Jews for the problems in the world, and challenging the cultural conflicts of today's post-modern society. But right in the middle

We, as followers of a God so often made manifest through collective liberation, don't have to wait for top-down change. This synodal process is a path that we are all making. 

History of publishing - Classical Antiquity, Scrolls, Manuscripts: The Greeks adopted the papyrus roll and passed it on to the Romans. Although both Greeks and Romans used other writing materials (waxed wooden tablets, for example), the Greek and Roman words for book show identification with the Egyptian model. Greek biblos (“book”) can be compared with byblos (“papyrus”), while the Latin volumen (“book”) signified a roll. It has been suggested that papyrus was continuously in use in...

It can be overwhelming to be a concerned citizen of the world. Recent natural disasters in Turkey, Libya, and Afghanistan resulted in sixty thousand dead, the war between Russia and

The Book of Wisdom, the last of the Deuterocanonical books was composed in our era, when Jesus had already been born