To understand Islam, we need to understand its major divisions, Sunni and Shiite. One way to start is to grasp the dueling ...

Charlton Heston as Moses in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments The (Covertly Exploitative) Ten Commandments The Ten Commandments is an epic, certainly, and a feat of filmmaking at scale. But ...

If God spoke in a still, small voice, for my generation, it was the voice of Val Kilmer. The actor, who embodied Batman, Jim Morrison and Top Gun ’s Iceman, died Tuesday at the age of 65. In the ...

Moses remained somewhat anonymous, merging his identity into divine mystery (Ex 3:14). Notice the contradictions. First, a property of fire is to consume, yet the bush remains intact.

“Moses Before the Burning Bush” by Claude Mellon, 1663 on Wikimedia Commons. A Homily for the Third Sunday of Lent Readings: Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12 Luke 13:1-9 ...

The strands of the heart of the fire, the voice of the Eternal One, the promise of freedom all dramatically unravel in the verses that follow the call of Moses at the Burning Bush. Refusal. Insolence.

The burning bush that was not consumed is a message planted in our souls: Homes have burned, but our spirit cannot be consumed. Dr. King preached the message of Moses far and wide.

He also points to the story of Moses and the burning bush, where Moses reports communicating with God through it. Some theorize the bush may actually have been a burning acacia tree in Egypt.

But it was revelations of fire too that, according to our tradition, sparked the faith of Abraham at the burning palace, of Moses at the thornbush, of Elijah at Mt. Carmel.