Esther
That really nasty part of Purim
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 20, 2024
(RNS) — The end of the book of Esther is monstrous. How do we cope with it?
This year, Purim is not funny
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 7, 2023
The end of the book of Esther is not pretty. Here is why it matters -- more than ever.
Can clergy avoid burnout?
By Jeffrey Salkin — March 21, 2022
(RNS) — Religious leaders cannot be everything and they cannot do everything. Ask Mordecai, the hero of Purim.
Amid pandemic and personal struggles, Max Lucado finds peace in divine purpose
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 28, 2021
(RNS) — The biblical book of Esther has helped the pastor and bestselling author through his own bout with a breakthrough case of COVID-19 and his recent diagnosis with a serious health condition, called an ascending aortic aneurysm.
Brenda Salter McNeil on racial justice: ‘Silence is violence’
By Adelle M. Banks — August 14, 2020
(RNS) — Brenda Salter McNeil, pastor, writer and speaker, says in her new book, 'Becoming Brave,' that now is the time for Christians to act for racial justice.
COMMENTARY: On Purim, seize the day
By Sharon Brous — March 13, 2014
(RNS) Purim is an exercise in radical spiritual destabilization, the one day each year when Judaism's otherwise exacting tradition recognizes that sometimes drunken revelry is a supremely reasonable response to the world.
Is Purim the Jewish Halloween? Some Jews say no
By Lauren Markoe — February 19, 2013
On Purim, as on Halloween, children dress up and goodies are given out. But some Jews take care not to think of Purim as their Jewish Halloween.
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