A news item on Process and Faith pointed me to the article below. It's by a Rabbi and talks about his discovery of, and Jewish perspective on, process theology. It explains his take on process fairly clearly without too much academic philosophy-speak (but with some Hebrew). Given how process usually comes up in a Christian context around here, I thought that the Jewish perspective given here might be interesting for others to read.

I have never had this answered to my satisfaction.

Is Judaism a race of people or a religion?

I would appreciate any input.

         It was the third bomb this week in Pakistan. A man walked into a mosque in Jamrud during Friday prayers. The congregation was about the size of our gathering this morning. Just after the Imam said the words, “God is great”, the bomb was detonated.   Half of the congregation were killed or injured.  

One of the most interesting phenomena of American Christianity is its apparent affinity for Judaism. Politicans regularly speak of a “Judeo-Christian” moral base for American law (even though it is, in reality, closer to Roman law), and evangelicals often refer to their “Judaic” or “Jewish” roots - especially with those sophisticated enough to realize Jesus was not a blonde-hair blue-eyed American. I don’t feel the need to extrapolate all of the ways that American evangelical Christians look fondly at the Jewish nation - it is fairly transparent.

On another blog I was a contributor to, one writer, The de-Convert, posted some troubling examples of what Jesus thinks about family values.

This is just a brief notice, though any information you have on it would be welcome.

For news of Israel coming from a Jewish source, I have long relied on the Israeli paper, Haaretz. Today, I added what looks like another good source available on the web. It is and American paper, The Jewish Daily Forward. It carries stories about Israel, and also about Judaism in the US. On what I can guess, based on reading just one copy, it looks impressive - a roughly liberal paper, but withoutout evident prejudice.

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Every so often I am astonished by how theologically minded individuals can perform radical surgery on the Bible to cop out of adherence to moral depravities. What further amuses me is the blatantly ignorant “there are no Biblical contradictions” statement. Biblical depravity and contradiction always rears its head whenever criticism of the Old Testament is at hand.

I recently finished Barrie Wilson's How Jesus Became Christian.  I'm interested in seeing if anyone else has read this book, and if so, what they thought of it.