We continue our study of the life of the man Moses with a unique meeting between God and Moses in the barren desert of Midian. Moses had spent 40 years taking care of his father-in-law Jethro’s sheep ...

It is December, and things are ending. Students get their papers in and prep for finals. Retailers push for a sales rush to declare a good year. Our northern world grows darker, daylight shorter. The ...

Moses was tending the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. Leading the flock across the desert, he came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There an angel of the LORD appeared to him in ...

This is Italian artist Domenico “Domenichino” Zampieri’s depiction of Moses talking to God in the Burning Bush and being assigned to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. Zampieri lived from ...

During a recent visit to Jerusalem, a woman in her 80s explained to me how she came to live in Israel. Her father was at Auschwitz when it was liberated. He lay on top of a pile of corpses, unable to ...

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A visit to St. Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai in time for the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria on Nov. 25. I see now why they’re called the “steps of repentance.” Some people learn the hard ...