At the end of World War II an international military tribunal was set up at Nuremberg to try the leading members of the Nazi regime, who were charged with crimes against humanity. These were the men who had made the whole of Europe shiver with fright. Yet they weren’t devils…
Few sights are as beautiful as that of a field filled with young stalks of wheat. To watch them swaying in the wind and dancing in the sun brings joy to the heart. But how strange is the process by which these stalks come into being. The grain of wheat…
St. John says, “Whoever does what is true [good], comes into the light.” Coming to the light is conditional on doing the truth. It’s not one who speculates about the truth but the one who does the truth who comes to the light. The shortest journey to the light is…
Once there was a very sincere man who wished to live a holy life. So he went to his rabbi to seek his advice. The rabbi congratulated him on his ambition, then asked, “How have you been faring so far?” “Quite well, I think,” the man replied. “When you say…
In the old city of Jerusalem, the golden Dome of the Rock dominates the ancient skyline. The gold-encrusted dome covers a Muslim mosque and a site that is sacred, not onlyto believers of Islam, but to Christians and Jewish people as well. Beneath the floor of the sanctuary is a…
