Tag: Jewish
Reflections on Elul and Rosh Hashanah
We are nearly halfway through the month of Elul, the final month of the Jewish year. With Elul’s arrival, we usher in a period of personal introspection, repentance and spiritual renewal, which take... Read More
A Concluding Unscientific Postscript to the Chic-Fil-A Controversy: An Observation
The Chic-Fil-A controversy made us painfully aware of our differences that reflect both religious and political commitments. In the following weeks, a lone gunman attempted to enter the offices of FRC... Read More
Musar, Mindfulness and Counting the Omer
On the Jewish calendar, we are currently in the period known as Sefira or Sefirat HaOmer—the Counting of the Omer, a forty-nine day period between Passover and Shavuot. Each evening, beginning on th... Read More
Jewish Disability Awareness Month
This February marks the fourth annual Jewish Disability Awareness Month, a time when special attention and emphasis is brought to the needs and experiences of people with disabilities in our communiti... Read More
Jews and Muslims in America: More in Common than We Think
Contrary to common assumptions, many Jewish and Muslim Americans enjoy warm relations. Yet we are only beginning to understand how and why this is so. A Gallup report released last week goes a long wa... Read More
Should Clergy Advise Couples To Have Extra-Marital Affairs?
A couple weeks ago, the New York Times Magazine’s cover story, entitled “Infidelity Keeps Us Together” described the efforts of popular sex columnist, Dan Savage, to adopt a more tolerant attitu... Read More
Protestant by Death: Discovering Congregational Vitality
I’m a Presbyterian minister but come by my interest (and my ignorance) of the Jewish faith honestly. My father died when I was six. My mother’s Protestant faith won out. I tell people I’m Presby... Read More
The Presbyterian-Jewish Divide that Need Never Be
This article was originally published on the Huffington Post. Simon Wiesenthal was an inspiration to me as a Jewish kid growing up in America. Who in my place wouldn’t have been inspired by him?... Read More- 3 of 3
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