You may have heard quite a few sermons on the creation. Read Genesis again, paying particular attention to the "ordering" of things. This ordering plays an ongoing role among the Hebrew people. The ...

The rhythm of creation in six days of work followed by Shabbat reveals a universe that balances growth and destruction, change and stability. Each day of creation brings forth something new: light, ...

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Last week, we broached the doctrine of creation by emphasizing the distinctive teaching of Judaism and Christianity: everything that exists comes from the hand of God. While the question of how God ...

Q: Dear Rabbi Gellman, several weeks ago, you had a column in our Patriot News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on Lilith. I accidentally threw out the paper without cutting that article out. Several ...

If we truly took the Bible seriously, I’m not sure we would ever get past the first chapter. Consider: in ancient Near Eastern societies, it was the king who was thought of as an image of God; it was ...

Genesis 5 is once again very organized and quite easy to draw an outline of, just like Genesis 1; Genesis 6, which is ...

History is the basis for every major Christian doctrine. Creation, a literal Adam and Eve, marriage, sin, death, the flood, the tower of Babel, Christ's virgin birth, His death and resurrection and ...

I’ve got sort of a followup question to the one somebody asked you about Abraham in a recent NCR article of yours. It’s about how to read Genesis 1-11. I’ve heard that Catholics tend to read those ...