The Romans named the seventh day Saturday, based on the Roman god Saturn. The word means “enough.” Saturn’s reign was ...

Remembering Pat, a good friend from Omaha, Neb.

The tenth and eleventh weekly Torah readings from Exodus, Vayakkel (35:1-38:20) and Pekekudei (38:21-40:38) deal with the construction of the Tabernacle during Moses’s time. Many readers think the ...

The call to “catechize” is nothing new, but it may seem passe’ to some. Yet, old truths serve to transform new hearts and inform maturing minds. See how it changed one child 50 years ago.

Should you be eating that?” people ask. While trying to be helpful, they come across as bossy, overbearing, and intrusive.

Despite the limitations of his human intellect, Pat successfully evaded this Pharisaic trap and taught us something about the infinite wisdom of God.

Jesus teaches the primacy of the law, but it is not the letter of the law that matters — literalism is the dehumanizing aspect of all bureaucracy — but the spirit i.e. justice for all, and ...

There is something to the Economist critique, but the criticism is probably hurt because Dream Count ribs the West’s pharisaic hubris, and it delights to see Adichie act as today’s Moliere as ...

Many today, maybe even you, may imagine that the purpose of catechism is to indoctrinate captive children into archaic, even Pharisaic, teachings that create arrogant little legalists. Alas ...

Protestants, following the tradition of the Pharisaic Jews, accept the shorter Hebrew Canon, even though the Jews also reject the NT Books. The main problem is that the Bible does not define itself.