Palestinian rocket in the opening days of the Israel-Hamas war. To commemorate her life, a wedding canopy has been created ...

What do we think about during the Ten Days of Repentance? What does it mean to return—shuvah—to God? Beyond eating, praying, and reading from the Torah on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, I spend much of ...

For Roman Catholicism, Holy Scripture is a primary source of revelation. As Trent puts it, saving truth and moral teaching “are contained in written books.” These are the books of the Old and New ...

this instrument for armpits and the legs. “Saracens” (Greek: Σαρακηνοί; Latin: Saraceni) was a term used by Romans to describe the “savage” tribes in the east of their empire. Later in the Middle Ages ...

Find today’s readings here. Do you ever feel like you’re living through a particularly troubled time? Bad things happen all the time—accidents, illness, sudden deaths: Any of these things can happen ...

The ascension of humans or beings into the heavens is a common theme among many mythologies and religions all over the world. Even though most people recognize the well-known ascension of Jesus, and ...

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