Restoration work at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem reveals one of world’s holiest sites rests on a precarious earthly foundation. Source: Tomb of Christ at Risk of ‘Catastrophic’ Collapse
“Resistance will require us to renounce our own tendencies to espouse practices of Islamophobia, patriarchy, and homophobia in our congregations and denominations,” says Rev. Leslie Callahan. Source: The Black Church in Trump’s America: Refuge and Resistance | Religion Dispatches
One of the principal reasons given for sabbath observance is the preservation of the distinction between Israel and the nations of the world, in order that those self-same nations will be able to recognize in Israel the mamlecheth kohanim vëgoy qadosh — the “kingdom of kohanim and holy nation” ( XIX, 6) — from whom they […]
Finally, after months of intense and loving labor, the Mishkan was completed and filled with the objects that had been so painstakingly made for it. The work had acquired the Divine seal of approval: Vayëhi bachodesh harishon bashana hashénith bë’echad lachodesh huqam haMishkan. And it was that in the first month, in the second year, […]
