Has The Whole World Been Blessed?
Let’s start where the story starts. Abram is living in Ur of the Chaldees when, without explanation or preamble, God – the God of history – says…
Let’s start where the story starts. Abram is living in Ur of the Chaldees when, without explanation or preamble, God – the God of history – says…
When I’ve talked about the need to defend one’s story, I’ve had in mind my experience that ill-wishers can show astonishing astuteness in picking out key elements…
It feels like forever – so changed are the times! – but it’s only been two days at this writing. Starting in the early hours of October…
This is a deliberately big book, 585 pages of text, with nearly a hundred more pages of notes and index. Its ambition is also huge: to present…
In my passage from childhood to young girlhood, there were two stories I relied on for clues about the life that lay ahead of me. The first…
Sometimes I imagine the following scene: I am seated at a sidewalk café in D.C., having dinner with a friend. Suddenly a troop of Wokesters show up. …
For Eric Voegelin, the realm of the “in-between” is humanity’s proper habitat. Temptations to depart this realm, which may be termed the historical condition, come at us…
Aviva Zornberg has written another of her inspired books about the Bible, this one suggestively titled, The Beginning of Desire: Reflections on Genesis. Why read the Bible? …
Some years ago, Jerry and I had dinner in Washington D.C. with a learned and accomplished professorial couple who’d been married and deeply in love for their…
We are just back from the pleasant French city of Montreal in Canada, where Jerry and I gave papers and attended the presentations of others at the…
My name Abigail means in Hebrew “father’s joy.” Which tells us that, at birth, I’d already received my assignment. Since my father was considered, by a number…
Defamation tends to obliterate the erotic appeal of the person being defamed. That’s one reason it’s so infuriatingly irreparable. It makes the victim seem undesirable. We are…
In recent columns, I’ve written about the mysterious effects of mind on body and their unpredictable intertwinings. One reader has left Comments on these columns, twice urging…
How much hangs on that denial – or on its contradictory, that my mind is my brain! If our minds are our brains, as I once thought,…
I don’t enjoy competition. By that, I’m not intending to reject anyone’s marketplace of skills or services. It’s just my sincere personal confession. For example, I was…