Tag: transformation
On the Process of Becoming – A Passover Reflection
In his commentary on Passover the 19th century Hasidic rebbe the Sefat Emet comments on verse from Numbers 15:41 traditionally read as “I took you out of the land of Egypt to be for you a Gd.” Tra... Read More
Sustaining the Earth, Sustaining People
It was an exciting weekend for me as an aspiring rabbi not only because I got to connect with friends and colleagues from across the Jewish environmental world, but because I felt in this diverse comm... Read More
Give Meaning to What is Positive, Not to What is Negative
I can say with complete honesty that I am not mean. In fact, I haven’t a mean bone in my body. So, why then, do I sometimes do mean things? Why do I sometimes surround myself with negative thoughts ... Read More
A Muslim in the Choir
With the transitional voice of my adolescence, the following lyrics vibrated outward from deep in my gut: I wonder if the light from the lighthouse would shine… The rest of the robe-clad singers... Read More
What Are We Saying?
For me, this raises important questions about the power and significance of words. The words of prayer are so important that I don’t want to change them, yet they are often so problematic for me tha... Read More
Evangelicals and Muslims Loving God, Each Other, and the World Together?
Is conflict inevitable? Fighting and fighting words aside, relations between Evangelicals and Muslims are far from uniform.... Read More
Come… read my sacred texts as if they were yours…
In an earlier post, I offered a reflection on the types of inter-religious encounters that, although often well intentioned, tend to be reductive and ultimately unhelpful in the development of inter-r... Read More
Home is Where the Start Is
At a time when many of the ways in which we are being told we can help curb climate change are “don’ts” these practices can be fun, celebratory, and can create community. Are we going to adequat... Read More