Alternate First Reading

Unlike the rest of Genesis, which comprises short, episodic stories [...]

Does good eventually come from evil acts? Does God cause bad things to happen so [...]

Long before HBO had Tony Soprano, the Bible had Joseph, arguably the original bad-guy protagonist. [...]

Opening lines in Hebrew narratives are loaded with meaning, but [...]

The command to know “who you are and whose you [...]

I never thought very much about shoes — especially about when to take them off [...]

This first revelation of sacred space identifies as holy the soil itself, God’s good land [...]

Wherever you live right now, it is probably Egypt in some way or another. In [...]

It can be hard to let go of the things, places, relationships, and systems that [...]