Christians and ex-Christians debate whether Yahweh should be understood as evil, just or fundamentally misunderstood. Critics point to violence, control, punishment and difficult passages in the Old ...

Yale’s distinguished literary critic and more-than-amateur, but less-than-professional religionist Harold Bloom treats readers to a profoundly humane internal dialogue between Yeshua (Jesus) of ...

Yahweh is a "stern imp" who "behaves rather unpleasantly" and "has been a disaster for his champions more often than not." Jesus of Nazareth was a "bewildering" figure who was "formidably ambivalent ...

I am a firm believer that when we fully understand God’s Character and realize just how unlike God we are, then we are required to respond. Perhaps it is important to note that our response can be ...

The prayer of the Christian is personal and relational. It is not offered to some unknown being or mysterious void. When Christians pray, we pray to someone. It is familial. God has revealed himself ...

Harold Bloom, Yale professor and dean of American literary critics, has once again ventured into the perilous waters of religious controversy with this meditation on two of the major figures of the ...

As I write this post, the government is still on the verge of a shutdown. Not because of the liberal left, but because of the power-hungry right (conservatives). The divided party still cannot get ...

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Prolific literary critic, Yale professor and professional provocateur Bloom (The Book of J) here tackles the characters of the Jewish and Christian gods: what god do we meet in Hebrew Scripture? Who ...