Simchat Torah celebrates the role of the Torah in Jewish history. This holiday is not mandated by the Torah itself but emerged through Jewish custom over time. The practice of completing the Torah ...

Episode 1: Episode 1: Our restless, insatiable spirit (27 min.) "We humans are infinite spirits in a finite situation, and that’s a sure formula for restlessness," Fr. Rolheiser tells interviewer Tom ...

In the Hebrew Scriptures, divine fire represents the presence of God. Sometimes fire composed God’s body, as in Ez 1:27 or 2 Sm 22:9. Sometimes, fire was all that appeared when God appeared, as in Ex ...

One of the most moving weekly rituals is the Havdalah (“separation”) ceremony, when we intone a sweet-sad melody to the words, “Behold, the Lord of my salvation in Whom I trust and thus I do not fear, ...

Katelyn has been a writer since they learned to hold a pencil, but was a latecomer to the world of gaming, gradually falling in love with video games over the course of high school and college. They ...

Installation view of The Barberini Tapestries at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine (photo by the author for Hyperallergic) After 16 years of conservation, the 1644-56 Life of Christ tapestries by ...