“Bless the Lord, all you works of the Lord” (Daniel 3:57). A sense of the entire cosmos pervades this canticle taken from the Book of Daniel, which the Liturgy of the Hours proposes for Sunday morning ...

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” This quote from the opening text of the Gospel of John is, perhaps, one of the most powerful and profound theological ...

In the beginning, there was only silence and stillness—no earth, no sky, no stars, no life. From the boundless void (sun ...

My wife and I spent the Jewish High Holy Days of 2010 and 2012 in Poland helping Poles who had discovered their ancestors had been Jewish to return to their Jewish People. I offer this wonderful ...

The Torah recounts primarily the story of the Jewish people. Only a few chapters discuss or address other nations. The exception is in the beginning of the book of Genesis, with the accounts of ...

Reincarnation is a core belief of the Hindu faith. In the Bhagavad Gita, Krishna explains that changing one’s body is like changing one’s clothes. I accept that possibility as I accept the idea of a ...

Shino Konishi receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Prior to colonisation there were approximately 250 different Aboriginal languages spoken by some 500 clans throughout Australia.