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There is a conversation between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox that I have watched more than once, and there is one part of it that really stands out to me. Not simply because of what Dawkins said. But because of what happened next. Lennox brought up something Dawkins had written in The God Delusion. Dawkins had questioned the historical existence of Jesus, and Lennox pointed out that historians, including historians who are not Christians, overwhelmingly do not reject Jesus as a historical...

One of the most common objections I hear from Jewish critics of Christianity is that believing Jesus is God must be idolatry. The argument often sounds straightforward: God is one, therefore worshiping Jesus violates that oneness. Case closed. Except...history isn't that simple. As I began studying the medieval rabbis, I found something that surprised me. Rabbeinu Tam, one of the most respected Jewish scholars in history and the grandson of Rashi, became associated with a view that many later...

The Hebrew Bible teaches us to choose life. Jewish thought wrestles honestly with death and what follows.