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A different kind of glory – 1: The word glory conjures up pictures of magnificence, pomp and acclaim. The Hebrew ...
3:45 AM Jul 8th, 2010
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Sing a new song: Domestic matters have drawn me from this blog for the last couple of weeks, for which my apologie...
1:41 AM Jun 20th, 2010
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Sci-fi and the Bible: Before time began there was no before: language cannot encompass that first beginning. It i...
9:53 PM Jun 2nd, 2010
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Summertime: After the feast of Shavuot follow the summer months. It is a long haul through the summer heat from t...
9:55 PM May 25th, 2010
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The nature of waiting: The count down to Shavuot (Pentecost) is a time of waiting – just as a child counts the day...
6:55 PM May 15th, 2010
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Heaps & heaps: Following Passover is a time of preparation marked by counting: a count down. But preparing and co...
8:04 PM May 7th, 2010
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What target?: Chattah is the main Hebrew word for sin used in the Bible. Like many Hebrew words, its root has a co...
3:16 PM May 5th, 2010
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Beneath the chatter: What underlies our conversation? From so many words, what is essential? Before Noah’s flood,...
5:19 PM Apr 29th, 2010
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Can God measure?: Atheists claim that a figure in the Bible shows the Bible to be inaccurate. Closer examination ...
9:46 PM Apr 26th, 2010
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Silence and the root of anger: The first attempt at speech between humans recorded in the Bible tells us much abou...
8:25 PM Apr 20th, 2010
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Abraham’s call: We are all familiar with the story in the Hebrew Bible of the calling of Abraham. We are taught as...
10:54 PM Apr 14th, 2010
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Surprising openings: 3: We have commented on the seemingly stumbling opening words of the serpent here and of the ...
1:22 AM Apr 8th, 2010
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Passover contemplation 2: The Passover night, which is different from all other nights, is repeated each year acro...
11:03 PM Apr 4th, 2010
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A Passover contemplation: We will be away for Pesach (Passover), so a contemplation for the week.
Passover is pro...
1:51 PM Mar 25th, 2010
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The honey and the bee: A land running with milk and honey is repeatedly promised by God to His people (first in Ex...
12:50 PM Mar 23rd, 2010
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The nature of faith: Is faith a matter of individual, inward belief? The individual struggling with a crisis of f...
7:34 PM Mar 18th, 2010
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Shalom and the philosophers: God’s place in morality has been dismissed in much of modern philospohy, based on Pla...
1:17 AM Mar 15th, 2010
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The pope and the telescope: The pope refusing to look though Galileo’s telescope at the moons of Jupiter is an ic...
8:29 PM Mar 11th, 2010
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Torn: the nature of healing: In Hebrew, the word for heal is “raph”, which means to repair or sew together a torn ...
10:52 PM Mar 6th, 2010
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Stumbling openings 2: “In the beginning…”: The opening Hebrew words of the Bible read awkwardly, causing dispute a...
5:19 PM Mar 4th, 2010
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