(RNS) — Married to a member of an Episcopal church choir, I had the pleasure this past month of sitting through two performances of Lessons and Carols, the musical-scriptural summary of the reason for ...

Are we to eat the etrog a couple of weeks early? While as your local Jewish preschooler can sing to you, on Rosh Hashanah we dip the apple in the honey, and on Sukkot we take the etrog and lulav and ...

except the tree of knowledge of good and evil. From that tree you shall not eat; the moment you eat from it you are surely doomed to die.” Today’s first reading walks us through the precursor to the ...

Columnist Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson writes in her Walking Our Faith column that “We think it’s stupid that God punished his own creation for the harmless sin of eating a piece of fruit.” There is no ...

The biblical figure Adam often gets a bad rap. This is understandable. In the creation story in the Book of Genesis, the first man and his wife, Eve, disobey God by eating the fruit of the one tree ...

As a result of Adam and Eve eating fruit from the tree of knowledge, the Torah tells us that “the eyes of both of them were opened….” They were stripped of their blissful naïveté, aware of their ...

A Blessed Companion Is a Book. by John Erskine. Indianapolis: The BobbsMerrill Co. 1927. 12mo. viii+327 pp. $2.50. ADDISON ably demonstrated that in writing Paradise Lost Milton was confronted by an ...