The first time the word “prophet” is used in the Bible is when God tells Abimelech in a dream to return Sarah to Abraham in Genesis 20:7. God says, “Now, therefore, restore the man his wife; for he is ...

Sunday, June 28, is the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass readings: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16; Psalm 89: 2-3, 16-19; Romans 6: 3-4, 8-11; Matthew 10:37-42. Have you ever thought of yourself as a prophet?

What does 2025 have in store for you and your organization? The pace of change and volatility we’re experiencing today, in our world, makes foresight a tough ask. For all our well-laid plans, we ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

The 1990 documentary about Patrice Lumumba by Raoul Peck (“I Am Not Your Negro”), showing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, looks and feels newly minted. By J. Hoberman “If the prophet dies, so does ...

There is a prophetic dimension to the ministry of a priest — not according to the dictionary definition of a prophet, but rather a spiritual prophet like the prophets of the Bible, many in the Old ...

(RNS) — Anyone who thinks the Scriptures are not political has never read the Prophet Amos hurling invectives at the rich and powerful of his time. Amos was not a professional prophet, but an ...

Having observed from afar the happenings at the Vatican over recent days as a new pontiff was elected, and having undergone the intense rope-a-pope tutorial that came by way of reading up on the ...