Love: Fast & Feast Together

Love. A good topic for “Virtual Ramadan,” an inter-faith celebration, hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. I’m a long-time friend…

Sing a New Song

Spoiler alert: you can scroll right down to the video, without reading. Lockdown has its own odd rhythm. So, I’m…

My love, if I die today, I want you to know. I love you. I’ve loved my life. And I…

Imagine. You have arrived at Speaker’s Corner in Jerusalem. Because you have heard that the prophet Micah is going to…

Repentance. Forgiveness. Atonement. Sounds like a chain of cause and effect. And maybe sometimes it is. If you repent, then…

Teshuvah. Reflection. Repentance. Return. Repair. Because: people. Can’t live with them. Can’t live without them. Even the best community has…

Summer is winding down. Mine was productive and wonderful. Except for three weeks I spent on the couch hosting a…

Light of Nature. Remember that old philosophical phrase? Descartes uses it in Meditations on First Philosophy. He does not define…

Shavuot. Celebration of Torah, harvest, and mysticism. Literally, Shavuot means the Feast of “Weeks.” Shavuot marks the end of a…