The Telegraph

Come sit under the shade of the fig tree

Slip under the shade of a fig tree with me and listen to the unusual way Jesus told one of his future disciples that exciting days were just ahead. “Very truly I tell you,” Jesus told Nathanael in ...
National Catholic Register

Lessons From the Fig Tree: Reading the Signs of the Times

Sunday, Nov. 18, is the 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time. Mass Readings: Daniel 12:1-3; Psalm 16:5, 8, 9-10, 11; Hebrews 10:11-14, 18; Mark 13:24-32. After another long day of back-and-forth with the ...
National Catholic Reporter

End or beginning?

At the end of the church year we are invited to reflect on the “Last Things” -- Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. We sober up to consider the inevitability of our own deaths, to remember those who ...
KPFA

Kate Jessica Raphael: Murder Under the Fig Tree

Kate Jessica Raphael, whose lastest novel is “Murder Under the Fig Tree: A Palestine Mystery” in conversation with Richard Wolinsky. Activist and radio producer Kate Jessica Raphael discusses her ...
The New Yorker

Briefly Noted Book Reviews

Under Jerusalem, by Andrew Lawler (Doubleday). Chronicling more than a century and a half of contentious digs around Jerusalem’s sacred sites, this history profiles the various “treasure hunters, ...