The episode of the Golden Calf stands as the Israelites’ lowest moment, a profound betrayal of God occurring so soon after the revelation at Sinai. While still on the mountain, God informed Moshe of ...

"Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me’" (John 14:6). This Bible verse comes from the Gospel of John, one of the four gospel ...

The grounds for human flourishing. Together with two of my colleagues at Yale Divinity School, David Kelsey (emeritus) and John Hare, I have started a multiyear project entitled “God and Human ...

Jewish law is commonly divided into two groups: laws that govern our relationship with God (bein adam la’Makom) and laws that govern our relationship with our fellow person (bein adam l’chavero). Thus ...

It is a Sunday morning, and my heart is heavy. I am on my way to praise God, but something feels off. My mind drifts, not to the divine figure of the heavens, but to my mother — the first creator I ...

This form of Judaism doesn’t worship a God. It’s called Humanistic Judaism, and it was founded by Rabbi Sherwin Wine in the Detroit area in 1963. The Judaism practice, which is grounded on solidarity, ...

As Americans, we are living in extraordinary times. In my almost eight decades of living in this extraordinary republic called the United States of America, I have never witnessed or experienced ...