The historian of liturgy Hughes Oliphant Old once observed that “prayer, particularly Christian prayer, uses biblical language. . . . The Bible contains a vast number of paradigms for prayer and a ...

There are many and various ways for us to approach and encounter God. There is no one means of prayer has a monopoly over our journey to God. God welcomes and blesses every sincere effort we make to ...

The Torah portion of Toldot begins with prayer and ends with a conflict around blessings. These two forms of communication are strikingly different. On the most simple of levels, blessings are ...

A wooden ark ( TEIVA) is used to save humanity. The choice of this TEIVA could not have been random and the message within that choice should not be ignored. Our sages teach that the ark was built for ...

How the languages of the indigenous in Panama, a community in Siberia, and people in Papua New Guinea shape their understanding of God. You’ve probably read the articles about foreign-language words ...

In his 2001 book, The God Who Justifies (Bethany House), Reformed Baptist anti-Catholic apologist James R. White sought to establish that the Old Testament Jews believed in sola Scriptura and a Bible ...

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