Tag: seminary
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
The Keystone XL Pipeline: A Moral and Religious Issue
I did not travel to Washington D.C. a few weeks ago to protest the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline in front of the White House—and get arrested—as some of my colleagues and so many other ... Read More
The Israel I feared
With each person he found to daven (pray), my heart sank a little bit. Each time he passed by my husband and me without asking us to join, I felt a little sad, a little frustrated, and totally invisib... Read More
Central Texas Fires and Echoes of Jeremiah
These past few days here in Austin, Texas, my prayers have included all those whose lives and homes have been affected by these unprecedented wildfires. For those fighting fires and in harm’s way, I... Read More
The End of Spirituality: On the Trail to a Sacred Secularity
This is a guest post by Chris Highland a professor at Cherry Hill Seminary. We are all tired of the contemporary cliche, “Spiritual but not Religious.” We might be surprised to hear someon... Read More
When the Walls Crumble
This layering of historical events onto a single day of mourning invites us to add our own personal losses to the sea of sadness and to have our pain held by our community. Channeling our imaginings o... Read More
Rev. Frankenstein: Seminary and Chasing the Monster
When I first read Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, I knew I would never be the same. I was a 21-year-old English major completely enthralled with Gothic literature, but nothing prepared me for the mon... Read More
Life, Death and Everything In Between
This year, in our seven-person CPE group working at a large Jewish assisted living facility in Boston, we are taught by a United Church of Christ Reverend and my fellow students are Jewish and Unitari... Read More