http://uq-media.com Raise your Understanding Quotient Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:54:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://uq-media.com/2009/05/16/micah-on-what-the-lord-requires/ http://uq-media.com/2009/05/16/micah-on-what-the-lord-requires/#comments Sun, 17 May 2009 00:13:44 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=322 Continue reading →]]> What does the Lord require of you, but to seek justice, to love kindness and to walk humbly with your God? -Micah 6:8

]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/05/16/micah-on-what-the-lord-requires/feed/ 0 http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/rabbi-mordeccai-kaplan-on-belief/ http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/rabbi-mordeccai-kaplan-on-belief/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 22:14:42 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=164  ”To believe in God means to take for granted that it is man’s destiny to rise above the brute and to eliminate all forms of violence and exploitation from human society” – Rabbi Mordeccai Kaplan

]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/rabbi-mordeccai-kaplan-on-belief/feed/ 0 http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/louis-jacobs-on-god-in-all/ http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/louis-jacobs-on-god-in-all/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 22:14:14 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=166 God is not a Being totally above His creatures but the One who embraces All in the fullness of His Being – Louis Jacobs “God, Torah, Israel: Traditionalism Without Fundamentalism” Hebrew Union College Press, p.17

]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/louis-jacobs-on-god-in-all/feed/ 0 http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/judaism-in-a-nutshell/ http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/judaism-in-a-nutshell/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 21:47:02 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=161 Continue reading →]]> An Abrahamic, monotheistic religion and one of the first, if not the first, of the truly monotheistic religions. The word, from the Hebrew יהודה Yehuda, relates to the following of the beliefs and practices in the instructions of the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible, which is broken into the Torah (five books of Moses, or Pentateuch) and Midrash or commentary. Jewish views on G*d include that the name not be spoken or written, and that G*d is transcendent, benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent, and active. When performing a web search, note there are different forms and traditions, including orthodox, conservative, reform, liberal, and reconstructionist or renewal movements as well as a secular humanist tradition which is nontheistic. Orthodox Jewish writing will discuss a static law, dictated to Moses, the humanist group emphasizes Jewish identity, and there are varying beliefs in between.

]]> http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/judaism-in-a-nutshell/feed/ 0 http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/movie-god-on-trial/ http://uq-media.com/2009/05/09/movie-god-on-trial/#comments Sat, 09 May 2009 19:28:55 +0000 lauren.speeth http://uq-media.com/?p=100 Continue reading →]]>  God on Trial – a made for television drama set in Auschwitz… has God broken the covenant?

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