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  1. A different kind of glory – 1: The word glory conjures up pictures of magnificence, pomp and acclaim. The Hebrew ... http://bit.ly/cXIM6D
  2. Sing a new song: Domestic matters have drawn me from this blog for the last couple of weeks, for which my apologie... http://bit.ly/9hLqXs
  3. Sci-fi and the Bible: Before time began there was no before: language cannot encompass that first beginning. It i... http://bit.ly/agRdKR
  4. Summertime: After the feast of Shavuot follow the summer months. It is a long haul through the summer heat from t... http://bit.ly/brqrzE
  5. The nature of waiting: The count down to Shavuot (Pentecost) is a time of waiting – just as a child counts the day... http://bit.ly/bqejrT
  6. Heaps & heaps: Following Passover is a time of preparation marked by counting: a count down. But preparing and co... http://bit.ly/aXjjGA
  7. What target?: Chattah is the main Hebrew word for sin used in the Bible. Like many Hebrew words, its root has a co... http://bit.ly/aLYL8g
  8. Beneath the chatter: What underlies our conversation? From so many words, what is essential? Before Noah’s flood,... http://bit.ly/cchdQV
  9. Can God measure?: Atheists claim that a figure in the Bible shows the Bible to be inaccurate. Closer examination ... http://bit.ly/dzcbA9
  10. Silence and the root of anger: The first attempt at speech between humans recorded in the Bible tells us much abou... http://bit.ly/bfFoVf
  11. Abraham’s call: We are all familiar with the story in the Hebrew Bible of the calling of Abraham. We are taught as... http://bit.ly/9HaIjO
  12. Surprising openings: 3: We have commented on the seemingly stumbling opening words of the serpent here and of the ... http://bit.ly/awbmYh
  13. Passover contemplation 2: The Passover night, which is different from all other nights, is repeated each year acro... http://bit.ly/97rJFu
  14. A Passover contemplation: We will be away for Pesach (Passover), so a contemplation for the week. Passover is pro... http://bit.ly/9RGjgU
  15. The honey and the bee: A land running with milk and honey is repeatedly promised by God to His people (first in Ex... http://bit.ly/9Rdstb
  16. The nature of faith: Is faith a matter of individual, inward belief? The individual struggling with a crisis of f... http://bit.ly/cPWEKR
  17. Shalom and the philosophers: God’s place in morality has been dismissed in much of modern philospohy, based on Pla... http://bit.ly/bkSfIQ
  18. The pope and the telescope: The pope refusing to look though Galileo’s telescope at the moons of Jupiter is an ic... http://bit.ly/caftbM
  19. Torn: the nature of healing: In Hebrew, the word for heal is “raph”, which means to repair or sew together a torn ... http://bit.ly/a42Tez
  20. Stumbling openings 2: “In the beginning…”: The opening Hebrew words of the Bible read awkwardly, causing dispute a... http://bit.ly/buu2qc