I'm a rabbi and I like Billy Graham. I don't agree with him about Jesus, but I like him anyway. He is coming to New York on June 24 for his last crusade (OK, I don't like that choice of words either), ...

Maybe it is because I grew up on the Lord’s Prayer. And maybe it is because I’m not used to the current cacophonic repetition of the word, “economy.” Either way, I always thought the word “debt” was a ...

All of the words matter. The words we read, the words that form our conversations with others, the words we listen to, the words that flow as private inner monologues, the words we type out into the ...

In Learning to Speak God from Scratch (Convergent, Sept.), Merritt considers how the meanings of religious words have changed over time. How did the idea for this book develop? The book was born when ...

In order to understand why we have such a strong desire to waste time and words, we must study the historical origin of this desire. Until a few thousand years ago, human beings had a nearly ...

"Spiritual But Not Religious" is the way many people describe themselves these days. It's a term that drives a lot of others crazy. For those who happily describe themselves as religious, "Spiritual ...