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Assert Your Authority
If on Rosh HaShanah we gain a picture of what can happen when we submit blindly to authority, Yom Kippur is our opportunity to choose another path.... Read More
Some Thoughts As We Approach Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur, or the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. Yom Kippur is one of the most widely observed of Jewish holidays, marked by a solemn, 25-hour fast and abstinence from w... Read More
Interfaith Humility and Intrafaith Pride: How A Nicaraguan Nun Made Me a Better Baptist
As a Capuchin Francisan Corps volunteer in Puerto Cabezas on Nicaragua’s Atlantic Coast, I had the remarkable opportunity to partner with the Christian Formation teachers at two Catholic schools, ev... Read More
A Jewish Autumn
This post is based on the poem “A Jewish Autumn,” written by Avraham Halfi. I studied this poem this week in the Hartman Institute Seminar for Rabbinical Students. It was originally wr... Read More
Death of a Legend: Judaism and Steve Jobs
Many have heard me joke, “I have two religions: Judaism and Apple.” In Jerusalem last summer, I purchased a kippah with the “Think Different” Apple logo embroidered on its black, velvety surf... Read More
My “Call to Action” for the United Methodist Church
A.k.a. "Why I will never join a White Anglo-Saxon Protestant Church again" ... Read More
Seeing church in Occupy Austin
Last evening I ventured to City Hall in Austin, TX where a mass of people gathered for the Occupy Austin General Assembly which is being held each night until the actual Occupation on Thursday, Octobe... Read More
Stopping Stinking-Thinking: “You Are Fearfully and Wonderfully Made!”
“I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” “I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” “I am fearfully and wonderfully made!” Two months ago I sat with a group of 40 South African teenage girls... Read More
Religion, Reality, and Responsibility
Candles glimmer on the table and challah passes from hand to hand, the loaf dwindles and smiles grow, as the year of 5771 fades away and the new year brightens in our midst. I look back on a year that... Read More