In the biblical religion of Israel (the era of the Second Temple), the central and obligatory element according to the Torah was sacrifice: daily sacrifices, sacrifices on holidays, sacrifices for sin, purification, and so on. After the destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans in the seventieth year of…
At noon the marble villa gleamed in the sun. Inside, in the cool of the atrium, a patrician in a spotless toga sat by a low table. A servant handed him a cup of dark, thick wine—aged and aromatic, as if it had absorbed the centuries of his noble lineage.…
A man blind from birth does not know the difference between light and darkness—there is no bright morning or dark evening for him. Words like white, red, or blue are for him nothing more than sounds, behind which he guesses some meaning, but never truly experiences it. Yet he feels…
Here is an actor standing backstage. The dim light is filtering through the cracks in the curtain, the stage is breathing loudly with emptiness, the audience is waiting in the hall. He closes his eyes. He takes off – invisibly, but noticeably – the clothes of everyday worries, like an…
The sun was high, generously flooding the rocky banks of the Jordan with light. The river, slow and warm, flowed between willows and reeds. Bright reflections lay on the surface of the water – like silver birds that had settled down to rest. People stood on the shore with bare…
It was the third year of Jesus’ public ministry. He stopped in Bethany before attending the last Passover in His earthly life in Jerusalem. The villagers, including Lazarus, Martha and Mary, held a celebratory dinner in Jesus’ honor at the home of a certain Simon “the leper.” Lazarus and his…
One day a disciple came to Jesus and said, “Master, I would like to become one of your dedicated disciples, but my father is dying; may I go home to bury him?” Jesus replied something like this: If you want to be a messenger, you must leave the burying of…
Jericho in the time of Christ was an oasis fragrant with dates, roses, and road dust. A wealthy trade hub on the caravan routes, it bustled with noisy bazaars and guards at its gates. The weather was hot; above stretched an almost cloudless blue spring sky, and the blinding light…
In any Christian denomination there are people who strongly believe in the power of God’s grace. For them, the source of a miracle and grace can be anywhere. In an icon, in a church, in relics, in the singing of a choir or the words of a preacher. They are…
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People see grass as green. But grass does not have color in the absolute sense. Different biological beings see grass differently. What we call color is the result of the interaction between light, an object’s surface, the observer’s eye and brain. So grass appears green to a human because chlorophyll in the leaves absorbs mainly…
Christians know the commandment “do not steal.” They read the Bible, go to church, listen to sermons, and sing about holiness and honesty. Yet history reveals an unpleasant fact: religiosity by itself does not protect a person from moral failure. More than that, sometimes a religious person becomes especially skilled at justifying themselves. American history…
The word “biological” in the modern world is often associated with materialism, the reduction of a person to chemistry, Darwinism, and a purely physical life. So some readers might mistakenly think that here spirituality is being reduced to the biology of the body. Not at all. Jesus described spiritual life as a living, organic process,…
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