In Marilynne Robinson’s novel, Gilead, an elderly and ailing minister writes to his young son whom he knows he will not see grow up. At one point he’s explaining the pastoral privilege of pronouncing ...

As we listen to God – our all-good creator – for how to bless and be blessed, He guides us.

We are counting down the Top 40 articles published in Leadership Journal’s 36-year history, and we conclude with this one, Lee Eclov’s masterful reflection on one of the fundamentals of ministry. In ...

“The Lord said to Moses, ‘Tell Aaron and his sons, “This is how you are to bless the Israelites. Say to them: ‘The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to ...

Its words are the oldest of the Torah ever found and the earliest artifact of Jewish liturgy we have in physical form, some 500 years before the Dead Sea Scrolls. “It mounts by gradual stages from the ...