This Sunday, the readings highlight the Judeo-Christian wisdom tradition found in Scripture. Wisdom literature takes many forms in the Bible. One form is as a set of “sayings,” aphorisms and proverbs, ...

“Nature will castigate those who don’t masticate.” So ran the solemn advice of one Horace Fletcher, the 1920s food faddist and evangelist for the idea that we should chew our food to a liquefied pulp ...

I want to look at wisdom. Yes, I know we could have a whole series of sermons on the topic, but let’s see what we can piece together here.

Politically, the next 2-3 months may be one of the most important challenges the Jewish People have ever faced; and Tisha B’Av’s modern lessons are right in the midst of it (August 3, 2025). The ...

Robert Alter’s ongoing translation of the Hebrew Bible into a new, more accurate and forceful English version is one of the most ambitious literary projects of this or any age. Turning the Bible into ...

Proverbs belongs to the so-called wisdom literature of the Old Testament and cannot be fully understood without some knowledge of this literary genre. In some measure wisdom is found amongst all ...

G.K. Chesterton once noted that the English writer Thomas Carlyle thought many people were fools. He added that Christianity, with even greater insight, says we are all fools. Seven biblical books, ...

LOS ANGELES — As observant Jews celebrate the week-long holiday of Sukkot, “the festival of booths,” which begins this year on September 27, the biblical book they’ll read and reflect on is the book ...

Dorothee Sölle’s best-known book, Suffering, was published near the end of the Vietnam War, an event that interrupted America’s myth of innocence 50 years before George Floyd’s death interrupted it ...