This Shabbat is the third of the seven Sabbaths between the 9 th day of Av and Rosh HaShanah, the New Year. The Torah portion begins in a stark manner: “See – I have placed today before you a blessing ...

In early January, Phillip Yancey, a prominent Christian author and pastor, shared an announcement that shook many Christians. “To my great shame, I confess that for eight years I willfully engaged in ...

In today’s society where opponents on issues are prone to half-truths, lies, mean-spirited arguments and cunning personal insults, speaking truth in love seems to have been discarded as old-fashioned ...

John Keats wrote that "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." But is that all we really need to know? Two new books of scholarship take us back to ...