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In the beginning, the story goes, the Creator began to move above the waters to bring life into being. The first creation account of Genesis begins with a poetic image of chaos transformed into order.
The Ten Commandments ( Biblical Hebrew: עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים, romanized: ʿĂsereṯ haDəḇārīm, lit. 'The Ten Words'), or the Decalogue (from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek δεκάλογος, dekálogos, lit. 'ten words' ), are religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according ...
Shavuot will be celebrated Tuesday evening through Thursday afternoon in Jewish communities. We reaffirm the covenant between the Jewish people and the “Breath-of-All Life.”. Additionally ...
Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park, 16 miles (26 km) east of Atlanta, Georgia. Outside the park is the small city of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The park is the most visited tourist site in the state of Georgia. The park is owned by the state of Georgia. At its summit, the elevation is 1,686 ...
This is particularly pronounced with the recent events in Gaza. The effort is underscored by the Qur'anic principle of standing for justice: “O you who have believed, be persistently standing ...
Elijah prays that God might restore her son so that the trustworthiness of God's word might be demonstrated, and "[God] listened to the voice of Elijah; the life of the child came into him again, and he revived." This is the first instance of raising the dead recorded in Scripture. The widow cried, "the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth."
During his visit to Israel, Rabbi Michael Ross bore witness to the pain and tragedy of the Oct. 7 Israel-Hamas War.
The Seven Storey Mountain is the 1948 autobiography of Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk and priest who was a noted author in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Merton finished the book in 1946 at the age of 31, five years after entering Gethsemani Abbey near Bardstown, Kentucky. The title refers to the mountain of purgatory from Dante 's ...