Definitions Before we start, I thought it best to give a couple of definitions, because they can be confusing to anyone not familiar with the terms ‘apologetics’ and ‘apologist’. They are nothing to do with saying sorry; they come from an ancient Greek word meaning...

I recently had a conversation with a friend who had had a miscarriage, and she wondered what might have been going on with the soul of her deceased child. I have extracted the important parts from that conversation, and turned it into a readable article. The initial...

Shalom everyone, I was recently asked to explain why I disagreed with Bart Ehrman's opinion that, since the Romans executed Jesus as a messiah, that he must therefore have been executed for political reasons. Ehrman believes that the Romans executed Yeshua...

Introduction: The Problem of Psychopaths and Sociopaths There is a difficult question that any religious faith committed to goodness eventually has to confront: What do we do when we encounter a person who appears to have little or no capacity for genuine empathy,...

The Conflicting Worldviews Talmidaism uses “Yahwism” normatively to mean the system of ethics, values and beliefs given by YHVH, through holy men and women, prophets and sages, that together produce a monotheistic faith in a holy God, YHVH. Yahwism is the faith and...

Why I wrote this article When we encounter uncomfortable views on a daily basis from religious and political extremes, it is always helpful to know what the biblical Yahwist view would be (Yahwism is what the theology of the original Israelite faith is called, which...

Why I wrote this article Occasionally I like to examine the values of other religions and philosophies, in order to understand them; also, to understand where we align in our outlook, and where we differ. Doing this will help us understand in what areas we can build...

This fourth article has been written as part of a series, in preparation for Theophany Day (this year, on Friday 19th June 2026), a day when we try to relive the experience of the manifestation of God's Glory to the Israelites, as if we had experienced it ourselves....

This article has been written as part of a series, in preparation for Theophany Day (this year, on Friday 19th June 2026), when we relive the experience of the manifestation of God's Glory to the Israelites. Previous articles: Theophany Day: An Opportunity to Focus on...

(There is a summary of this article at the end) In the Israelite religion, the spirit of YHVH is not something separate from God, but rather the inherent, active, transforming force of YHVH in the world. YHVH's spirit is understood as God's active moral presence,...