The Grammar of Reverence

Something is stirring in the West. After decades of polite secular confidence, people are talking about God again. Not only priests and rabbis but writers, artists, and philosophers are rediscovering that the human heart cannot live on irony and self-optimization alone. The modern world has reached the end of its disenchanted imagination. Across denominations, communities that once whispered God’s name are learning to speak it aloud. In this new hunger for transcendence, every serious attempt to bring the divine back into the public square deserves gratitude. Few have done so more compellingly than Rabbi Shai Held.