Hope: Torah Insists on Faith in the Future

Hope. Torah insists on it. How? By relating everything to the Exodus. Even the apocalypse! What is the Apocalypse? Apocalypse…

Inter-spiritual picnic (Mishpatim)

Then Moses and Aaron, Nadav and Avihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders ascended. They saw the God of Israel, and…

Jewish communal prayer is both liturgy and experience. The liturgy expresses a theology — a theory about God. The experience stimulates inner…

Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition, has been handed down from Biblical times. It has appeared in different guises, expressed in the…

We are all spiritual leaders in our daily lives. When we embody the gifts we have received through our religious traditions,…

We came to the Laxmi Narayan Hindu Mandir (Temple) in Surrey, Canada, expecting to see unfamiliar religious practices. But, as…

Synchronicity, as defined by Carl Jung, occurs when two or more events are connected by their meanings — though not…

Yesterday at Or Shalom Synagogue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, we harvested horseradish from our synagogue garden. We are an…

For forty-eight minutes, Father O’ neal was dead. As he crossed over into the next realm, he saw God. Forty-eight…