Consider various events in the Bible associated with the number 40. The flood was 40 days and nights in length. Moses was on Mt. Sinai for 40 days to receive the 10 Commandments. Israel wandered in ...

He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf ...

Until last weekend, when “The Passion of the Christ” stormed the box office, the No. 1 movie in America was the Adam Sandler comedy “50 First Dates.” Given the intense debate surrounding the release ...

The biblical figure Adam often gets a bad rap. This is understandable. In the creation story in the Book of Genesis, the first man and his wife, Eve, disobey God by eating the fruit of the one tree ...

Whenever a fairy tale begins with “Once upon a time, there were three brothers,” we anticipate that the older brothers are oafs and the younger will be unexpectedly successful. The Bible is the ...

Fifty-five years ago, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice set out to create a musical that asked a central, controversial question about the central figure of Christianity: what if Jesus Christ wasn’t ...

“Let the children be fed first” (Mark 7:26). Gn 2:18-25; Mk 7:24-30 Matching up today’s Genesis reading about the creation of woman with Mark’s Gospel about Jesus’ encounter with the Syrophoenician ...

Inanna and Dumuzi came before Adam and Eve. That’s right: Inanna and Dumuzi. Never heard of them? Well, let me tell you a little bit about this ancient couple. Their story takes place in the Middle ...