Nov. 11—The story of the Burning Bush in Exodus 3 and 4:1-17 shows that God knows much more about people than they know about themselves and that they should trust him and obey his will. The Revs.

Even without a dramatic reveal showing how much our actions matter, we are responsible for doing the good within our reach ...

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 ...

The divine cannot be reduced to scientific explanation or empirical inquiry. God exists beyond the categories through which ...

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 ...

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 ...

God Is In The Flame ...

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 ...

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 ...