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A 41-year-old Wisconsin pastor has been accused of sending himself nude photos of a parishioner's wife. The sordid ordeal allegedly took place earlier this month when pastor Gabriel Mills, pastor Journey Church, held a 'life group' meeting at his home in Kenosha, that had the victim, her husband and children in attendance, along with other members of the congregation. When Mills asked the victim's husband for his phone so he could download an audiobook app on it, he obliged unaware that Mills was allegedly sending intimate photos - that were sent by his wife to him and were for his...

In honor of the 201st anniversary of the passing of the founder of the Chabad Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Shneur Zalman, ZT'L, I'm posting one of the melodies he composed and was wont to sing. If your more used to R&B, country, or rock, it may sound strange at first... The verse is from Song of Songs 5:2 "I sleep, but my heart is awake. Hark! My beloved is knocking: Open for me, my sister, my beloved, my dove, my perfect one, [for my head is full of dew, my locks with the drops of the night."]

A Torah shiur on classical Jewish commentary and elucidation of a verse in the King Solomon's Song of Songs. Don't let the Hebrew or Yiddish scare you...he translates everything. Jews--What do you live for?

Three Ways of Living | The Introduction to Three Philosophies of Life | Peter Kreeft The Inexhaustibility of Wisdom Literature I have been a philosopher for all of my adult life, and the three most profound books of philosophy that I have ever read are Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs. In fact, the book that first made me a philosopher, at about age fifteen, was Ecclesiastes. Books of philosophy can be classified in many ways: ancient versus modern, Eastern versus Western, optimistic versus pessimistic, theistic versus atheistic, rationalistic versus irrationalistic, monistic versus pluralistic, and many others. But the...