In this engraving by French artist Gustave Dore (1832-83) the Prophet Ezekiel is depicted having his vision of "The Valley of Dry Bones" in Chapter 37 of his book. The vision pertains to God s ...

In 2019 I spent a semester training to be a spiritual director at the Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley. Aside from the chance to absorb the decades of experience brought to the classroom by the ...

Do you love prophets? I do. They are those people in Scripture (and beyond it) whose truthfulness is so searing that we can’t turn away. Prophets are relentless. They open our eyes because theirs have ...

This is French artist Gustave Dore's depiction of the Valley of Dry Bones from the 37th Chapter of the prophetic Book of Ezekiel. Dore lived from 1832-83. (Courtesy Photo) There is nothing else in the ...

It speaks not only to the drama unfolding in this week’s Torah portion but also to the deepest fault lines in Jewish history ...