Robert Alter’s Hebrew Bible translation is at once accurate and eloquent
Precision and beauty have kissed.
Scripture
Maybe Jesus’ words aren’t about me, my family, or my sacrifices. Maybe they’re about him.
“Being in Jesus” is John’s theological language to describe a state of communion essential for our faith.
I've long identified with Mary's fire. Now I want to learn from Elizabeth.
Sometimes the terror we know is more tolerable than the peace we can’t imagine.
Ethical hacks for managing our adolescent technologies
Kate Ott looks at the moral implications of digital language.
This seems to be par for the course.
The psalmist calls for something that is hard for us to imagine.
“If we don’t understand the Judaism of Jesus’ time, how can we understand him and his message?”
In Torah, the stranger appears as a guest to be welcomed, not a problem to be solved.
To know any truth about God, we must be drawn into the life of the Trinity. But how?
Why do we forgive him so much more easily than migrants today?
God called all of them good. Humans are rapidly destroying them.
