Tag: Clergy
Streams Run Uphill
In an excellent new book, Streams Run Uphill: Conversations with Young Clergywomen of Color, Ruth-Aimée Belonni-Rosario writes about the promises and pitfalls of colonialism in her own spiritual jour... Read More
‘A Voice Calling in the Desert’: Personal Reflections on the Concept of Vocation in the Jewish Clergy
This week we begin a new book in our annual cycle of public Torah reading in the synagogue. We turn to Leviticus, which begins with words that are at once evocate and ambiguous: “And He called unto ... Read More
Should Religion Be Hard?: A Response to Tom Ehrich
Last month, Tom Ehrich published an article in the Washington Post asking whether communities of faith were making religion too hard. His conclusion? Yes. Ehrich concedes that some aspects of faith ar... Read More
Gay Marriage Pride at New Jersey’s Largest Synagogue
This article was written by Rabbi Matthew D. Gewirtz, Cantor Howard M. Stahl, Rabbi Karen R. Perolman, and Rabbi Joshua M. Z. Stanton, the clergy team at Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in Short Hil... Read More
Taking Time: Health and Ministry
It is about that time in the academic calendar at my seminary where we are halfway through the semester and the influx of homework that always seem to accumulate around this time of the year. For many... Read More
Online Clergy In the Age of I-everything
This past week, The Jewish Daily Forward published an article entitled, “Online Ordained Rabbis Grab Pulpits.” This article profiles several synagogues who, in this difficult economic climate, hav... Read More
Interfaith Dialogue in the Pulpit—Proclaiming an Emerging Gospel: A 21st Century Imperative
In this article the author reviews the context of contemporary American Christian experience, which is a thoroughly multi-religious, pluralistic context. The article argues for an approach to Christ... Read More
Celebrating Female Clergy
A college chaplain once candidly described the process for him, as a Protestant, as one of simultaneous celebration and mourning when he recognized that Protestantism was no longer a universal norm on... Read More