Acts of violence fill this week’s news. All have complex political, social and psychological causes. Amidst the complexity, can an…
Year: 2016
Judaism on One Foot
Mission Impossible. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to present a 15-minute “introduction to Judaism, including its…
A Philosopher's Prayer
Holy One of Blessing, Great One of the Universe. When I look at my country and see the violence, the hate, the confusion, the thousand factions, each…
Spiritual Practice
What is spiritual practice? Spiritual means relating to spirit. Practice means doing something. Spiritual practice is the art of actively paying attention…
Resisting Teen Radicalization
Recently I attended a multi-faith symposium on youth crime prevention with the specific focus “Tackling Radicalization in Faiths.” Speakers included the Imam…
City Mouse, Country Mouse: Is Jewish Continuity a Fable?
Maybe, as we tell the story of the Jewish people, we’ve got the wrong paradigm in mind. We think we…
Transfiguration
What do Moses, Jesus, Paul and possibly you have in common? Mystical experience? A struggle for the right words? A…
To Infinity and Beyond
Solomon Ibn Gabirol A Jew raised in Muslim Spain 11th century Known to Jews as a literary artist a…
A Divine Hug
“People from the United Church of Canada like to hug,” said my friend B. I filed this random fact away…