Almost all the scriptures were written by men. As humans have a desire to live forever, religion provides attractive offers of life after death. Humans invented God, the superhuman, to answer all the ...

Q: Your insights through your column are thought provoking and often generate fascinating discussion within our family. One thing I have always wondered about is why God would tolerate, let alone ...

One viewpoint: God needs us. God is vulnerable. God has a need for humans for his ongoing mission. God might feel lonely without humans. Who will sing his songs if we are not there? Another thought: ...

When we speak of Creation, it seems that we need to be aware of what might be called a hierarchy of creative value. At the top of the hierarchy is the Creator himself; then there is creation, which is ...

The Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, was this last weekend. This year, I felt its cleansing power palpably. My reacquaintance with the power of Yom Kippur came decades ago. I see it as part of the ...

Our salvation is just an appendix in Christ’s redemption of all creation. One of the most quoted Bible verses of all time is John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, ...

Man is the crown of God’s creation. However, Man is not God’s only creation. Before he formed Man, God created many things. What distinguishes Man is that God placed him at the zenith or apex of ...

Pretty much everyone is familiar with the "Creation of Adam", even if they might not know that it is a section of a fresco painted by Michelangelo for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican.

A popular nursery rhyme dwells in our collective consciousness: "Mary, Mary, quite contrary, / How does your garden grow? / With silver bells, and cockle shells, / And pretty maids all in a row." One ...