Marc Gellman

Measuring the toll of the disgraced financier.

How the financial crisis is affecting America's churches.

A lesson for the election.

The most important question for people of faith in campaign 2008.

The spiritual significance of turf grass.

Believers and atheists try to claim the genius for their own side.

A tale of hope about freedom, philanthropy and how ordinary people can make a difference.

I want everyone to vow: This year, I will have sex only with someone I love.

Through intermarriage, the U.S. Jewish population is rapidly shrinking.

How Martin Luther King Jr. reminds us of the necessity, and the miracle, of hope.

Mitt Romney argues that people of faith share a common creed of moral convictions. But is that really true? And where does human reason enter the equation?

Debunking the myth of cherubs, wings and rosy cheeks.

The lesson of this holiday is that all zealots must be defeated.

A rare moment when Americans of different faiths mingle

The land and water are still here—but where are the animals?

Indian guru Sri Chinmoy was able to lift airplanes and elephants and thousands of people. That's why I believe faith without miracles is empty.

What I want to say to a person of prejudice.

Sol Gellman was my dad and he just died. I want to tell you the most important thing about my dad and the most important thing I learned after he died.

Conservationist Richard Leakey discusses the threat facing Congo gorillas and what the world can do to help.

Every school where children are ushered in now seems to have some form of graduation to usher them out. Is that cute or just plain silly?

Israel's Six Day War offered American Jews a refuge from the social traumas of the 1960s. How the conflict reshaped the community.

The rabbi thanks those who nurture our aged parents.

The rabbi prays for Henry, who has cancer.

Almighty God, We ask your blessings of comfort descend like the dew of Heaven for the families of those whose children shed their blood into the concrete and spring grass of a place they had come to for learning and not for death. 

After a decade as a regular on his show, I would not call him a bigot. But the talk host does need to take three spiritual steps of repentance in order to be saved.

The great spiritual questions of our time concern the use of power to secure freedom. The world of Islam has never faced the jarring revolution of the Enlightenment, which severed Christianity's ties between faith and power, and, lacking a Muslim Voltaire, some segments of Islam still pine for a restored caliphate in which the sword is wielded by mullahs and the line between religion and the state is obliterated.

The Bible has many names for what we call sin. At the top of the sin hierarchy is a Hebrew word, toevah , which is most often translated as "abomination." An abomination is not just wrong, not just sinful.

Why giving presents during the holidays can be spiritually fulfilling.

This week my congregants will celebrate 25 years of my being their rabbi. The ancient rabbis taught that the one who is truly honored is the one who honors others; in that spirit, I wanted to share my joy at this milestone in my rabbinate by offering some words of praise and honor to all clergypersons who have served their flocks for many years.The most important thing I have learned by being professionally religious for more than three decades (I've been a rabbi for 34 years) is that what you...

For many years, I marched as a clown in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Here is some of my clown wisdom:The ordinary streets upon which we travel do not always have to be ordinary.