Critics of Judaism often argue that the God of the “Old Testament” — the God of Judaism — is vengeful, a God who almost seems to enjoy wreaking havoc and destruction. Such critics are wrong, of course ...

It has now been a month since Israel’s remarkable and miraculous war against the Islamic Republic regime in Iran. Israel’s success in its intelligence, planning, and execution of this operation are ...

The grounds for human flourishing. Together with two of my colleagues at Yale Divinity School, David Kelsey (emeritus) and John Hare, I have started a multiyear project entitled “God and Human ...

The risk is that the attention given to getting the rules right can distract from the fact that a healthy society is always primarily about relationships and only secondarily about rules. It is only ...

Woody Allen famously pointed out that the problem is not that God doesn’t exist, but that he is an underachiever. The philosophical tendency for at least the past three centuries has been to assume ...

We are trained – taught, really – that God is all-powerful. That to me has always meant, since I was a little girl, that there was nothing that God could not do. I grew up believing that God wanted ...

When God is described in the Bible as being both merciful and just it can seem like an identity crisis, however Pope Francis said it's the opposite: rather than contradicting each other, the two ...

The continual oppression and injustice destroying Black communities since 1619 is a national health crisis that has now risen to a state of emergency. The list of murdered Black Americans is endless.