The matter right now is not just the global backlash against refugees but the glee with which some anti-refugee figures ...

Even people who know little about the Bible likely can recount the story of Moses leading the Israelites from Egypt in an extraordinary exodus. In this interview, Carol Meyers, an archeologist and ...

The Exodus from Egypt was a triumph of freedom—but it was also an agonizing process. As we see in our parsha this week, the Israelites knew they could no longer endure the tyranny and ...

and “the Lord gives you flesh to eat in the evening” (Exodus 16:8). In the Eucharist, we know that the bread becomes Jesus’ flesh for the life of the world (cf. John 6:33). The Israelites ...

Biblical teaching generally pushes Christians to advocate for submission to authorities, whether in politics or in the church ...

"This is what you shall tell the Israelites: I AM sent me to you." [Exodus 3:14; NAB] God's name - YHWH (Yahweh) - translates as "I AM WHO AM" or simply "I AM." In John 8:24 & 58, Jesus is ...

lest they multiply and should war occur he (Israel) too will join our enemies v’ala min haaretz (normally translated and ‘and so go up out of the land’) (Shemot/ Exodus 1:10) Based on this ...

This claim infuriates some Israelites because only God can provide that kind of rest, as in Exodus 33:14, “My presence will ...

It remembers the Exodus ... in Jesus and believes that he died for forgiveness of sins can be a member of God’s covenant community. This privilege is no longer only for the Jews.

So that, for example, the scapegoat of the Book of Leviticus who bears off the sins of the Israelites is a type pointing ahead to Jesus and his bearing the sins of the world, according to ...