The prophet would ask why we continue spending billions of dollars for weapons and tax cuts while cutting aid to the hungry, the sick, the unemployed, and victims of wars and climate disasters.

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“Comfort, comfort my people,” God instructed the ancient prophet Isaiah in the 40th chapter of his biblical book, words that begin this Shabbat’s haftarah. This prophetic portion, read annually as ...

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Do I believe and trust that God is unconditionally and completely always with me? King Ahaz, for example, named in that genealogy, is the ruler whom the prophet Isaiah addresses in this Sunday’s first ...