A sermon presented at Canadian Memorial United Church, February 12, 2017, in video, with text version following. Song of the Sea,…
Category: Interfaith
Talking about God
I’m kind of an unreflective theist; I grew up hearing the word “God.” On Shabbat, my family sang, “On the seventh…
Real Religious Pluralism
You may recognize the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel. Everyone on earth spoke the same language and used…
Don't Let Religion Divide Us
Spirit cloaks itself in different cultural expressions. And some religious teachers have used difference to denigrate and divide. In 55…
Real Love
At our Shabbat gatherings at synagogue, we read from the Torah about the adventures of our ancestors in the wilderness,…
Spiritual not Religious
Shabbos dinner with young university students is an adventure. Charles and I warm them up with a few glasses of…
Where did that sermon come from, Rabbi?
Saturday January 1, 2005: My first day of work as a congregational rabbi. “You can lead part of the service,”…
Interfaith or Multicultural?
Young statisticians in love. Can you imagine their wedding? If you do, please don’t imagine anything stuffy or stilted. Because…
The Ninth of Av
When my mother, of blessed memory, was in her mid-fifties, she attended a self-help psychology workshop. Afterwards, she said, “This…