The first book I finished in 2026 was Jonathan Eig’s biography of Martin Luther King Jr. I couldn’t have predicted how deeply it would move me. Eig refuses to flatten King into a symbol or slogan. He ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“An angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire from within the bush. He looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.” A year ago, this verse came alive ...