שְׁלַח־לְךָ About the time that Gideon of Manasseh delivered Israel from oppression of the Midianites and Amalekites (Judges 6:1-8:35), a war of (literally) epic proportions took
בְּהַעֲלֹתְךָ In a response to a reader’s question about his works, author Stephen R. Donaldson provided this enlightening comment about the motivation behind his writing:
נָשֹׂא This post-modern generation of the industrialized West has lost sight of the power of the Oath. That is why there is so little understanding
אַחֲרֵי מוֹת / קְדֹשִׁים What is this fascination with the possibility of life beyond this planet? Are we so insecure in our human existence that
אַחֲרֵי מוֹת / קְדֹשִׁים How do we love the unlovely? That is one of the questions Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise explore in Rain Man.
תַזְרִיעַ / מְּצֹרָע Anton Pavlovich Chekhov wrote a story about how a dead fish ruined a man’s life. To be honest, it was not the
שְּׁמִינִי The problem with great satire is that it can be so irreverent. Then again, that is the strength of satire: using humor and ridicule
מַצּוֹת It was in May of 1986 that I first visited the great World War I battlefield at Verdun. Along with Auschwitz, Verdun is on
וַיִּקְרָא A standard feature of civilization is the rules of the house, the guidelines by which a person can be welcomed into and remain peacefully
Not that long ago, the men’s Bible study I am blessed to attend spent several months going through the Gospel of Mark. One morning we