The Hebrew Bible contains multiple provisions to ensure that no one would go hungry. The corners of the field, forgotten sheaves of grain, gleanings that drop from the hands of the gleaner, and small clusters of grapes left on the vine were to be given to the poor.

Marriage, sanctified by the bond of fidelity, is the nearest life gets to a work of art.

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

When money rules, we remember the price of things and forget the value of things, and that is dangerous.

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.