There are moments when circumstances seem so far gone that hope itself begins to feel unreasonable. That is the world into ...

Do you love prophets? I do. They are those people in Scripture (and beyond it) whose truthfulness is so searing that we can’t turn away. Prophets are relentless. They open our eyes because theirs have ...

There is a current in creation that runs not forward, but inward—deep into the garments of time where past and future fold over one another like the two tablets of the covenant. Most rivers run from ...

In 2019 I spent a semester training to be a spiritual director at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. Aside from the chance to absorb the decades of experience brought to the classroom by the ...

It was 597 B.C. when Ezekiel and thousands of other citizens of Judah were taken over by the Babylonians and forced into exile. Ezekiel had been living as a captive in Babylon for five years with his ...

This week we present the first installment from the annual lecture series “The Fascination with Jewish Tales” by teacher, author, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Elie Wiesel. Professor Wiesel’s ...

In the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible, New Jerusalem is Ezekiel's prophetic vision of a city centered on the rebuilt Holy Temple, to be established in Jerusalem, which would be the capital of the ...