weekly insights

Now Mount Sinai was all in smoke, for the LORD had come down upon it in fire...and the whole mountain trembled violently. The blare of...

In Exodus 14:15-16 the Lord speaks to Moses in the midst of a terrifying scene: Having escaped from Egypt, the Hebrew refugees find...

The Christian festival of the Epiphany, in the West, primarily celebrates Christ’s ‘manifestation’ to the Gentiles as depicted in the...

'Whoever meets Jesus Christ, meets Judaism' (St John Paul II) [1] Indeed, Christian remembrance of the nativity of Jesus is always an...

As the Book of Genesis draws to a close, we find the elderly Jacob and his sons and their families still living in Egypt, having gone...

'I am Joseph your brother, whom you sold to Egypt' (Genesis 45:4). With these words, Joseph reveals his true identity to his estranged...

Pharaoh further said to Joseph, “See, I put you in charge of all the land of Egypt” (Genesis 41:41). By the end of Genesis 41 one can’t...

Chapter 37 of Genesis begins the saga of Jacob and his children. We soon learn that seventeen year old Joseph is the favoured, gifted...

“Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with beings divine and human, and have prevailed” (Genesis 32:29)....

Then Jacob kissed Rachel, and broke into tears” (Genesis 29:11). Thus begins the love story of Jacob and Rachel in the book of Genesis....

Genesis 26 tells a story from the adult life of Isaac. It is a story strikingly similar to a story about his father, Abraham, in Genesis...

'Sarah lived one hundred twenty-seven years; this was the length of Sarah’s life. And Sarah died in Kiriatharba (that is, Hebron) in the...

Recommended viewing: Difficult Texts Regarding “The Jews” in Matthew’s Gospel: A Socio-Political Framework Online Webinar from Sisters of...

Our focus this week is Genesis 22:1-19. In Christian tradition this passage is known as 'the sacrifice of Isaac'. In Jewish tradition it...

Lekh Lekha: “Go-you-forth” (Hebrew). These words of God launch Abraham (here called Abram) into a journey that has him leave his homeland...

The story of Noah’s Ark (Genesis 6:9–11:32) is well known and loved by Christians from childhood. Yet how many of us have explored the...

A new idea has extraordinary power. It can be embraced, rejected, or ignored, but what one cannot do is ‘unthink’ it. So says creative...

I will always remember the month I spent in the Australian bush on an Outward Bound course. No tents. Just creative use of a bivy sheet...

'[God] found them in a desert region, In an empty howling waste. [God] engirded them, watched over them, Guarded them as the pupil of...

This Sabbath in the Jewish calendar is called Shabbat Shuvah, "Sabbath of Return". It falls between Rosh Hashana (Jewish New Year) and...