I want to look at wisdom. Yes, I know we could have a whole series of sermons on the topic, but let’s see what we can piece together here.
This week’s guest on Poetry in Daily Life is Nile Stanley, PhD, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. A teacher educator, artist-in-residence, and researcher for 36 years, he has been on a mission to ...
The Hebrew Bible’s Book of Proverbs, sandwiched between the Psalms and Job, elucidates moral values and proper conduct for a life of wisdom and justice. Rabbi Shmuly Yanklowitz, author of The Book of ...
In this age of the transistor, there is a sense in which God may be said to have given us “transistorized wisdom.” The Book of Proverbs contains hundreds of verses that present truth in the smallest ...
True wisdom is not static knowledge but a dynamic, collective capacity transforming insight into flourishing Shabeer Ahmad Lone “Where shall wisdom be found?” asks Job (28:12), evoking humanity’s ...
Most of us can still hear our parents’ voices in our heads from time to time, especially once we become adults ourselves.
"The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction." — Proverbs 1:7, (World English Bible) I'm going to lay my truth right here on the line. I don't want ...
“Wisdom shouts in the street; in the public square she raises her voice.” Proverbs 1:20 Common English Bible The Biblical book of Proverbs is full of imagery of wisdom personified as a woman calling ...
I have been reading through the Jewish Annotated New Testament, published by Oxford in 2011. An NRSV with notes and commentary by Jewish scholars, it sets the New Testament in a context that is ...