Call them what they are: blasphemers

On September 11, 2001, nineteen men boarded four commercial planes and murdered nearly three thousand people, believing men who claimed to speak for God, that they would be rewarded with paradise. That promise was not religion. It was blasphemy.

Living Between the Ceasefires

In Israel these days, there’s a shorthand in our speech and mannerisms that are just understood and can be discerned quickly, in under five seconds.

What the angel knew

Elijah had just done the most extraordinary thing. He’d called fire down from heaven on Mount Carmel, exposed the prophets of Baal, and turned a nation back toward God. By every measure, he’d won. But then he ran for his life into the wilderness, collapsed under a juniper tree, and asked God to let him die.