This is Italian artist Domenico “Domenichino” Zampieri’s depiction of Moses talking to God in the Burning Bush and being assigned to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Zampieri lived from ...

Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the LORD appeared to him in ...

Why, out of all places, did God reveal himself to Moses through the sneh (burning bush)? (Exodus 3:2). One possibility is that the experience seems to be a microcosm of revelation. Note the similarity ...

During a recent visit to Jerusalem, a woman in her 80s explained to me how she came to live in Israel. Her father was at Auschwitz when it was liberated. He lay on top of a pile of corpses, unable to ...

At this time of year, in the synagogue, we Jews are reading the initial part of the Book of Exodus, hearing of the early life of our leader Moses. In Exodus 3, in a famous passage, Moses is called by ...

Charlton Heston wax sculpture at Madam Tussaud Hollywood. Thank You (21 Millions+)/Flickr/Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) thus ending his disturbed identity ...

I understand frustration with media negativity. But bad news may be God’s invitation to work alongside him. On a church mission trip in 2004, 65-year-old Ramon Billhimer looked out a bus window in ...

Luke Timothy Johnson, known for his scholarly commentaries on the third Gospel, described this Sunday’s Gospel reading as a call not only to repentance from sin but also a call to become aware that ...