Week 4 (Year 4, NL)

Many lawmakers want to see the commandments displayed in public schools. Are they also interested in the Hebrew Bible’s ethical demands?

Sometimes the harm caused by breaking a promise is less than the harm caused by keeping it.

Child advocate R. L. Stollar seeks to help people read the Bible in ways that protect and honor children.

Julia Watts Belser sees in the Torah a God who is in love with the creative possibilities of difference.

Having grown up as a Black-mixed kid, I can relate to Moses’ upbringing as not quite Hebrew and not quite Egyptian.

We see what we focus on—and what we focus on determines what we do not see.

We gave our readers a one-word writing prompt: “Wind.”

What if we did asystematic theology?

It’s Easter. Step into the future.

How Pharaoh treated the Hebrews and how the US has treated my people

Matthew Wilcoxen traces the idea from Augustine through Katherine Sonderegger.

When Moses says “keep still,” he’s not recommending inactivity.

Theology as a love letter to God

Yes, there’s violence. But there’s also God’s faithfulness and care.

People assume that silence and peace can be simply harnessed together, silence as Xanax for the soul. But that's not how deserts work.