To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The signature story of Israel’s history is the Exodus. It’s the account of the arduous trek of hundreds of thousands of freed Hebrew slaves across the brutal wilderness of the Sinai Peninsula. The Promised Land of Palestine lies ahead. Egypt is in the rearview mirror. The people are buoyed by overwhelming hope and gratitude. Right? In truth, the… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here For most of his adult life, Moses felt something like deep disillusionment and hopelessness. Having failed disastrously in his own strength to free his fellow Hebrews from slavery in Egypt, he fled into the Sinai wilderness. There he spent 40 years apparently doing little more than tending sheep and keeping his head down. Then,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Sooner or later, every mother has to face what Moses’ mother faced. She had to let her child go. The story of Moses’ birth is told in one of the Bible’s most dramatic texts – the opening 32 verses of the Old Testament book of Exodus. More than a thousand years… Read more »
