The Ones You Didn't Hear in Sunday School

The Gospels contain many accounts of Jesus healing the sick and the lame and other miracles; but they rarely speak much about what happens ...

This piece isn't about a particular Bible story; it's something I wrote several years ago for blog that, sadly, is no longer in exis...

Dang, if that crazy old guy with the torn-up coat wasn't right after all. The prophet Ahijah had prophesied that Jeroboam would so...

(originally posted as D'var Torah Veyehi on Daily Kos, Dec. 28, 2012) We like to think of David as the gentle shepherd boy with th...

Sometimes people dismiss the Bible as being nothing more than a “collection of fairy-tales,” a judgment which to my mind shows a superficia...