Welcome
On this website, I write about the Bible, Israel, and the church.
I explore how a Jewish story grew into a world religion, and what changed along the way.
Many ideas taken for granted today within faith and theology were born in a world far removed from the one in which the Bible was written.
That is why I keep returning to the sources: the prophets, the rabbis, and the earliest Followers of Jesus, read within their own time and context.
My interest lies not only in what the text says, but in the question of how we read it.
Do we operate on the text, or do we allow the text to operate on us?
Alongside essays and articles, I write novels. In those stories, the same themes return in a different form: family, history, guilt, faith, and homecoming.
THE RETURN
THE RETURN
A novel about family, history, and the way home.
About what generations carry within them.
About guilt that keeps speaking.
About fathers and sons, departure and return.
And about the question of whether a person can ever truly escape their past.
Latest Articles
Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes
Sometimes we expect God to reveal himself in great events, in miracles, in visions, in the extraordinary.
But in Genesis 18, God appears to Abraham in a very ordinary place: at the entrance of a tent, in the heat of the day, in the form of three travellers passing by.
And Abraham does something remarkable. He does not begin to pray. He asks no theological questions. He runs. He fetches water. He has bread baked. He serves.
In the Bible, hospitality sometimes turns out to be a place where God himself is received.
Some stories are not about leaving, they are about coming home.
