…Pope urged by Jews to take care over Pharisees talk Pope Francis is being urged by experts to take greater care when referring to “hypocritical” Pharisees, a stereotype that fuelled centuries of bad ...
In 1964, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel wrote: “I am ready to go to Auschwitz any time, if faced with the alternative of conversion or death.” The prominent Jewish theologian was protesting a reference ...
“But what if we are vernacular? What happens when we discover the possibilities of what our bodies mean—when we discover a community of people who interpret our bodies in new ways, who see the image ...
There is a parable in the Bible about a pharisee and a tax collector. The Pharisee trusted in himself that he was righteous, and despised others. Luke 18:10 says, "Two men went up to the temple to ...
In this uneven contribution to the literature of Jewish-Christian relations, minister Kendall (Out of Your Comfort Zone) and Rosen, former chief rabbi of Ireland, gather together their 2005 epistolary ...
The dramatic verses we study are from Acts 5:12-42 and condensed below. Teaching in the name of Jesus, His apostles “performed many signs and wonders among the people.” Subsequently, “more men and ...