[This is a revisit; first posted  2012; part of a series  from No Religion is an Island by Abraham Joshua Heschel (AJH).  Related posts are: Revisit: No Religion is an Island – Abraham Joshua Heschel Revisit: No Religion is an Island – 2 – “To equate religion and God is idolatry” – AJHeschel Our most recent acquisition […]

[First posted in  2015 on the occasion of the visit of ‘Rockstar’ Pope Francis to the Philippines.  Here is the original introduction: During the visit of Pope Francis to the Philippines, a ‘sea of humanity’ —as media practitioners term the nonstop-overwhelming-welcome and send-off—was phenomenal.  Those of us on the sidelines (the non-Catholic flock) watched the […]

  [First posted  2012.  “AJH”— Abraham Joshua Heschel—as you must have already noticed from the frequency we feature his writings—is a favorite resource person of ours, whose words we quoted in our Statement of Faith.  That quote is the opening of his essay, the title of which is the title of this article.  Being a […]

[First posted in 2014.  We know from reading the “Old Testament” of the Christian Bible, that Israel was clearly the chosen people/nation of the “OT God”.  Christian teaching claims that not only did the New Testament supersede the Old Testament, but that believers in Jesus Christ have collectively taken the place of Israel!   Hence, the virtual […]

[First posted March 21, 2013, we never tire of revisiting excellent posts.—Admin1]   Abraham Joshua Heschel called the Sabbath a “Sanctuary in Time.”  This article calls it a “Tabernacle in Time.“   Sanctuary, Tabernacle, the idea is much the same, suggesting an ‘appointment’, as in a ‘date’ or a  dimension of time that has been […]

[While waiting for James D. Tabor to come up with his translation of the Hebrew Bible, this one showed up on the list of amazon.com, in hard copy as well as downloadable as ebook.   Of course when a new translation lands in the marketplace of non-stop publications of yet a newer and better and […]

 [First posted in 2012, seven years ago, buried in our over-1000 posts; so reposting since it’s worth a review, if not a good first time read for those who might have missed it the first time around.—Admin1]   ————————-   The subtitle of this book:  “A Physicist Proves We’ve Been Wrong About God All Along” […]

[This was first posted July 2, 2012,  We are often asked by our former Christian colleagues, “so how are you now ‘saved’ if you no longer believe in Jesus Christ as God/Savior/Messiah?”  We don’t attempt to explain the long journey we’ve taken since we left Christianity ; we simply refer them to this website OR […]

[Originally posted in 2012.  This brief discussion is from  A History of the Jews by Christian historian Paul Johnson; he discusses the difference in dogmatic theology where Christianity had problems formulating while it was relatively absent from rabbinical Judaism. This book as been featured as MUST READ and MUST OWN, downloadable as ebook from amazon.com; reformatted for posting.]   […]