Every major world religion has a process for moral accounting. That’s something we rarely talk about in secular society.

“Repentance.” It’s a word most of us have heard countless times in church. Yet beyond the religious familiarity, repentance ...

Do those two words even belong together? I know for a long time I would not have associated them with one another. Repentance is about being judged, right? And no one likes to be judged. But is that ...

“Whatever happened to repentance?” Frederica Mathewes-Green asked in Christianity Today (2/4/02). “We live in a time when it’s hard to talk about Christian faith at all, much less about awkward topics ...

These are the three tools which G-d gives us to transform His judgment from bad to good: repentance, prayer, and charity.

In continuing the encouragement on spiritual warfare, it doesn’t end with submission and resistance. Spiritual victory is ...

On Rosh HaShanah her mother once gave her a bag of nails and told her that every time she lost her temper or insulted somebody she must hammer a nail into the back of their fence.

(RNS) — The Jewish celebration of the advent of a new year bears little resemblance to the sort of sentimental emoting and tipsiness we associate with Jan. 1. Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is a ...

Yom tov.” What is Rosh Hashanah? It begins the 10 “Days of Awe” leading to the “Day of Atonement” when each person's fate for ...