With the U.S. being a separate church and state type country, people get a little testy about the idea of teaching the Bible in public school. How could you possibly think of doing such a thing? Don’t you know there’s no proselytizing in schools?
But we do teach literature. A lot of it. How can we [...]

An interesting intersection of science and faith. The Associated Press reports on a new Israeli software which is “giving intriguing new hints about what researchers believe to be the multiple hands that wrote the Bible.”
The new software analyzes style and word choices to distinguish parts of a single text written by different [...]

Plans are in the works to film a major Hollywood epic on the biblical story of Noah. Deadline New York reports Paramount is nearing signing onto the big ticket picture Noah written and to be directed by Darren Aronofsky, director of Black Swan.
The film will cost well more than the ark cost Noah to build:
Noah [...]

On the heels of the San Francisco debate over banning the circumcision of baby boys (a key Jewish ritual), the threat to Jews practicing their faith exists Down Under as well.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports that a combination of “animal welfare groups, Greens, independent lawmakers and some Labor backbenchers” are spearheading a ban [...]

For all you control freaks: it’s time to learn to delegate, not micromanage.

In Exodus 18:13-26, Jethro meets up again with Moses and sees his son-in-law working morning to night listening to everyone’s problems as judge. Jethro asks Moses why he’s doing it all alone. Moses says the people who need God come to him. When [...]

In his book, Predictably Irrational, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely describes a study he and colleagues conducted which found that recalling the Ten Commandments right before an exam discouraged students from cheating.
…what a miracle the Ten Commandments had wrought! We didn’t even remind our participants what the Commandments were - [...]

In Exodus Chapter 16, we find the Children of Israel wandering through the “Seen” desert, and they were none too happy with Moses and Aaron. They were famished and complained loudly that they might as well have died back in Egypt, rather than starve to death in the wilderness.  Still possessing a slave mentality, [...]

Continuing our discussion of Joseph and the financial lessons in his story: the Divine plan behind Joseph’s sale to the Ishmaelites and his ultimately landing in Pharaoh’s court is stated clearly in Genesis 50 as was foreshadowed a few chapters earlier.
After their father, Jacob-Israel dies, Joseph tells his brothers, “you meant [...]

Lake Lambert, author of the book, Spirituality, Inc., speaks to BiblEconomy about the growing trend to bring spirituality into the workplace. The professor of religion shares his favorite economic lessons from the Bible. Who is the model of a visionary and gifted manager? Do the Bible’s teachings encourage capitalism or socialism?
What did you [...]

In Hebrew, the last letter of the Torah is Lamed which appears in the last sentence of the last chapter of Deuteronomy in the last letter of the word “Israel.” Deuteronomy 34:12: “and for all the mighty deeds and all the terrifying displays of power that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.”
Turn to [...]